"MANDATE FOR CHANGE"
Bubba: "Hey, man that's a lie! I never touched that chick?" Mandate for oral sex is more like it, ay?
The local paper the next morning actually said Clinton wins in landslide. Un huh. So he carried 32 states. They failed to point out he won all but one of them with less than 50%, and many he took with under 40%!
Local TV guy the next day actually said since Clinton received a whopping 42% in CT, our state's voters gave him an overwhelming mandate for change. What a laugh. 58% of voters chose someone other than Clinton, and every congressional incumbent won again. People in this state wanted the status quo, if you ask me.
I seem to remember the NY Times also used the phrase "electoral mandate" at the time -- to use Clinton's lopsided victory in the electoral college to obscure the fact that 57% of the voters in this country voted for someone other than Clinton.