you stupid ignorant privileged leftists, it's as if you've forgotten when Obama got the most votes of any presidential candidate ever, and had complete control of the house and Senate, and he did lots of good things with his Mandate. remember that dummies?
This argument regarding the mandate is precisely why I favor voting third party (e.g. Green, or I guess PSL) regardless of the spoiler effect. A Dem winning by a slimmer margin and Greens/PSL getting bigger (though still small) pieces of the pie means that Dem is on thin fucking ice, as they should be. Voting for a Dem on a lesser-evil/harm-reduction basis gives them a bigger mandate than they will ever deserve.