> In case it's not clear, I very strongly disagree with your assessment that this disagreement on the mandate had much to do with how much support each candidate got.
Perhaps. But, at least at the early stages of the campaign, there was still some coherence in the positions of the candidates.
And Obama's no-mandate position from that period is in coherence with the general perception that he was the most "libertarian-friendly" and "independent-friendly" of the democrats. And that perception certainly had a lot to do with how much support each candidate got.
So I don't know whether this particular item was important, but the overall "libertarian-friendly" and "independent-friendly" stance (of which this item was an integral part) definitely was.
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Re: wording & framing
Date: 2009-08-25 19:56 (UTC)Perhaps. But, at least at the early stages of the campaign, there was still some coherence in the positions of the candidates.
And Obama's no-mandate position from that period is in coherence with the general perception that he was the most "libertarian-friendly" and "independent-friendly" of the democrats. And that perception certainly had a lot to do with how much support each candidate got.
So I don't know whether this particular item was important, but the overall "libertarian-friendly" and "independent-friendly" stance (of which this item was an integral part) definitely was.