[cowboyway]

The fact is that Lincoln was popular enough to beat his nearest opponent by 10 percentage points

I wouldn't characterize 39% as 'popular', but keep on spinning, liar.

Your math skills are truly dazzling.

So are you spin skills. /sarc

But you're saying that in 1980 Reagan did not have a mandate, right?

You can hardly call just over 50% of the popular vote a resounding mandate.

If that's the case, then Obonga (the product of the loins of a Kansas woman) received a clear signal in November that the American people issued a mandate to socialize/communize the US.

[Non-Sequitur]

I wouldn't characterize 39% as 'popular', but keep on spinning, liar.

He was more that 10 points more popular than his nearest opponent. And it's no spin to say for a fact that even had Lincoln had only 1 opponent and if he'd still gotten only 39% of the vote then he'd still have been president.

You can hardly call just over 50% of the popular vote a resounding mandate.

But you can certainly say that getting 90% of the electoral votes was.