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AP U.S. Government 3.2 Political Beliefs and Behaviors. In the context of elections, what is a mandate?
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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour
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brought to you by the electoral college Dc is number
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one party school in the context of elections What is
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a mandate And hear the potential answer In the months
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following an election politicians arrive in washington with more than
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a few suits and some trinkets to remind them of
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home They've also got a big old mandate on the
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books In the context of elections is a mandate be
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a majority in the electoral college but not the popular
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vote well in u s presidential elections There are two
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different tallies to determine the winner First there's the electoral
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college which is made up of a group of electors
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in each state who cast their votes based on how
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the popular vote turns out nice and straight forward right
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then there's the popular vote which is the grand total
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of all the votes cast by civilians There have been
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a couple of cases in american history where presidents won
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a majority of the electoral college but not the popular
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vote But the half and half decision doesn't quite signify
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that kind of unified confidence A mandate would suggest there
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could a mandate b c a majority in the popular
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vote Winning the popular vote would definitely pump up our
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confidence like arnold But we need something that's got a
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little more walk than talk so we can cut out
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see what a mandate referred to d the election of
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the same party to the presidency and a majority in
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congress Well having the same party in the white house
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and congress certainly makes it easier to an act of
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political agenda But a mandate refers more to the agenda
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itself Not the electing we did during the election What
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about e A preelection poll favoring a candidate While we'd
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love to win a popularity contest win means nothing till
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we make it through election day and face the cold
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hard democratic truth but small wins right Well if we
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can edge out e that means in the context of
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elections a mandate is a a public endorsement of a
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candidate's policy platform A mandate from voters means they not
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only sapo poured us is a candidate They also support
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the policies we ran on For example if we run
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on a platform supporting increased government transparency and end up
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getting elected we can point to our victory as evidence
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of the public's desire to see cem change So option
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is the correct answer Another example I say we run
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on a platform supporting increased funding for water parks and
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end up getting elected way Better believe the public wants 00:02:25.273 --> [endTime] to slide down a slippery slope
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