Title: What is a Mandate? - Definition & Examples - Social Science Class [2021 Video] | Study.com
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What is a Mandate? - Definition & Examples
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Mandates: When Winning Might Not Be Enough
When Is a Mandate Really a Mandate?
Roosevelt's Mandate
Reagan's Mandate
Truman's Mandate
Obama's Mandate
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Content: After all, a majority of voters selected you, meaning they preferred you over the other guy. Of course, they may not have 'preferred' you, not really; they may not have liked you at all, and it's just that they liked the other candidate even less. It's possible they were not choosing the best candidate, but instead the classic 'lesser of two evils.' How do you know if voters really supported you and what you want to accomplish in office? The idea of a mandate is a pretty hazy one, since there's no legal definition for it and no specific set of circumstances in which you can apply it. But this hasn't stopped many national candidates and political parties from claiming that they had one. In this sense, a mandate, the belief that the electorate broadly supports your plans and has told you so with an electoral victory, is often worth more than the election itself. {"error":true,"iframe":true}
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