Lincoln Chafee Quotes
Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.
Chafee, Lincoln. "Sen. Lincoln Chafee Discusses the Election." Interview by Judy Woodruff. CNN Inside Politics, Cable News Network, 4 Nov. 2004.
Taft had a very good sense of humor even when he was self-depricating.
He was explaining why his candidate, Earl Warren, refused to debate his opponent, incumbent governor Olsen, in 1942. Later he was one of the Nixon advisors who was vehemently opposed to Nixon debating Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election.
The margin of victory was 50,000 votes; however, there were accusations that Buchanan had “bought” the election.
On that date, a few days before the election the FBI Director publicly announced that he was reopening the Investigation into possible wrongdoing of Ms. Clinon's use of provate emails. He had earlier cleared her of all criminal wrongdoing and and he claimed that they had found a new computer that had some e-mails that they had not not yet examined for possible criminal activity. In addition WikiLeaks published on the Internet thousands of private e-mails that the Russians had hacked from her campaign chairman and her comittee. The two things started moving her trend down so that she only one the popular vote by almsot 3 million votes and she needed more to overcome the electoral collage gave to rural and small states. Ironically, the FBI went throught the contents of the computer and after the election announced that there was nothing there that incriminated Ms. Clinton, and there was no criminal activity found in all the hacked e-mails. And the FBI Director was chastized by the Republican Justice Department after Donald Trump took office for improperly making pubic investigation details before there were any findings. The FBI Director was subsequently fired but this and otehr reasons were given as the reason.
Adams bitterly blamed Jefferson personally for his failure to win reelection for a second presidential term. See {629219}. Jefferson tried to argue in this quotation that the issues of the election were so great that it was irrelevant who the candidates of the two parties were. In actuality, both were right. The issues were huge, but it was Jefferson who was the most effective critic of the Federalist program and philosophy. Adams had become a bit of a pompous ass as President and this didn’t help his own cause. He and the Federalists believed that the President needed to be treated with great respect and have many of the trappings of monarchy so he would be a credible leader. Jefferson was completely opposite in philosophy and personality. Note that Jefferson, trying to be positive with Adams, tells him in effect, “The Federalists were such right wing ideolo, that if I had been running against any other Federalist candidate I would have won by a much larger margin, but you at least were able to moderate the extreme views so my task was much harder.” Years after this, the two men reconciled.
Donald Trump had won the presdiency by winning a majority of the votes of the Electoral College. However his opponent Hillary Clinton garnered about 2 million more votes. Several other presidents have won with a minority vote. These occurances did not affect the Presidents' legitimacy as the Electoral College was specified in the Constitution, However, it did undercut the concept that the President had a mandate. Other presidents just carried on and either earded the respect of the majoprity of AMericans or did not over time. Howevewr, Trump, who was so sensitive and fragile about his image, kept responding to comedians like Bee by claiming that the only reason he lost the poular vote was voter fraud by illegal immigrants. However he never offered any evidence of such and there were no convictions for same or even arrests and trials.
Lincoln Davenport Chafee is an American politician. He was mayor of Warwick from 1993 to 1999, a United States Senator from 1999 to 2007, and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015. He was a member of the Democratic Party from 2013 to 2019; in June 2019, The Boston Globe reported that he had become a registered Libertarian, having previously been a Republican until 2007 and an independent and then a Democrat in the interim.
