Winning is a mandate (#1378)

I suppose I will have a couple of more posts regarding our national election and this will be one of them. Our President won his re-election handily but yet the opposing party is desperately trying to portray our president's win as inconsequential for his policies. They have been sounding the alarm that since he didn't overwhelming win the down ballot elections as well he has not been given a mandate to follow through on his policies. I disagree. First off, the mere fact that he won justifies him having a mandate, even if he only won by 1 vote, instead of the more than 2.8 million votes he did win by. Second, since a formidable opponent ran against him and lost, who had a totally different set of policies to offer that reflected the opposing party's view, we can deduce that the opposing party's views were rejected, leaving only the winners policies as acceptable. Now the down ballot races in the House of Representatives did skew toward our President's party in a handful of races overall, 8 to 9 more precisely, yet the opposing party did maintain control. By the mere fact that the opposing party lost seats in it's majority is being used as a less than clever argument that the opposing party still has rejected policies that overrule our President's policies, is nonsense! The opposing party is having problems with losing on the ideological front and they are pulling out all the stops in order to somehow ameliorate their rejected vision. It won't work, as people as simple as myself see through their strategy. Our President does have a mandate and he will wield it to move our country forward despite the opposing party's last gasp to make itself relevant in the face of it's diminution.