"Deb, it might be big win to some but it wasnt a landslide or mandate"
Nut, it was more then just a win.
Consider:
"• Bush took both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote; he beat Democratic Sen. John Kerry 51 percent to 48 percent, grabbing more than 59 million votes, compared with Kerry's more than 55 million.
• Republicans made gains in both their U.S. House and the Senate majorities, including ousting the Democrats' Senate leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota. They also picked up seats in the Arizona Legislature.
• And in what might have helped turn the election for Bush, the president grabbed a majority of voters who considered moral issues and values top concerns.
In Arizona, voters put the state squarely on Bush's side, giving the president an 11 percentage-point margin of victory in a state he had carried by only 6 points in 2000.
And despite what state Democrats characterized as the largest and best-organized registration and get-out-the-vote efforts they'd ever assembled, voters gave Kerry virtually the same proportion of votes Al Gore won in 2000, less than 45 percent, while giving Bush a boost of 5 points, to 55 percent."
