A mandate? You call this a mandate?
Yes and get used to it!
Pleez! Dial down the hostility! Get a grip! It's sarcasm, referring to Margeret Carlson's LA Times column, in which she said "only" 51% was not a mandate. Of course, it's a mandate, and Ms C is a fool. Sheesh, people keep hopping onto posts with daggers drawn, without a little thinking.