51% Is Not A Mandate – Especially When All the Votes Were Not Counted

“History suggests the possibility of major losses next year is not beyond imagination. The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll showed support for Bush’s handling of Social Security at just 31 percent. That is several points lower than support for Clinton’s handling of health care in the summer of 1994 – just before the failure of what was widely perceived as an over-ambitious plan helped fuel the GOP takeover of Congress that fall.”

I very much want to be the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in 2007 so that we can bring back checks and balances to our government, and restore accountability. There may be a wave developing that will make that happen.

The second point is the continued disregard of the most obvious explanation for these low poll numbers by the mainstream media. They wonder: how can a President, just re-elected, have such low poll numbers and hold positions on the issues that are so unpopular? Is he already a lame duck? Better questions: was he just re-elected legitimately, or was voter suppression and machine malfunction or malfeasance used to manipulate election results? In other words, maybe these polls, rather than our broken election system, better reflect the true will of the people.

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