Post Election Bliss

The 2012 Presidential election is now behind us and the American people have issued a mandate saying that we have confidence in our President and wish for him to continue on this course to recovery.
A mandate, you say? What's that? Aren't all the Republicans, again, trying to say that this wasn't a mandate by the voters? To answer this, we must look at the REAL definition of the word mandate.
Truncated from a definition from Wikipedia, the definition of mandate is:
man·date/ˈmanˌdāt/Verb:
In politics, a mandate is the authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative.[1]
The concept of a government having a legitimate mandate to govern via the fair winning of a democratic election is a central idea of democracy. New governments who attempt to introduce policies that they did not make public during an election campaign are said to not have a legitimate mandate to implement such policies.

Now I'm not an absolute genius, but reading this definition seems to make it pretty clear. If you're in a democratic election, operating in a government that is a republic, then winning by one single vote, by defninition, constitutes a mandate.
I believe Bob Dole saying at one point, and it may have been in 1988 when the Republicans won the senate, the same thing.
Its funny how not only have the Republicans self-appointed themselves as the curators of morality and social enforcement, but apparently as wordsmiths, the new Merriam Webster.
Let's not redefine age old words that should mean exactly what they mean. A mandate is a mandate is a mandate. And ONE VOTE CONSTITUTES A MANDATE!!!

Further, let's also address Florida.
Its currently 24 hours after Florida's polls closed.
And we still don't have the results from Florida.
This year, fortunately, Florida doesn't matter. I mean, of course, that the direction that their electoral votes go will not change the election. I think if, which is likely, the state does again go blue and cast its electoral votes for the President, it will be much harder to say this wasn't a landslide, which indeed I believe it was.
But the important thing should be that the voters of Florida, Republican or Democrat or Independent, feel disenfranchised, which is what I am a voice for, because they realize the nation no longer "cares" what they vote because we already know the outcome.
This is a travesty for American elections and democracy. There should be no reason these votes haven't been counted. There apparently is no sense of urgency. The states of California, New York, and Texas, all of which have a higher population, somehow managed to get their votes counted. Why can't Florida?
This is not something new for them! They've exhibited they're incapable of counting votes since the hijacking of the 2000 election. They've had 12 years to get their shit together and learn how to count votes or identify hanging chads! What more will it take to get Florida on board? Are they in the pockets of Republicans to, in the event of a closer race, once again hijack the election?
The secretary of state of Florida needs to put politics aside and reform the methods they use to count their ballots. One of the election bosses from Lee county Florida gave a press conference today, on the verge of tears, this elderly lady said something to the effect that "we know we have a problem." Then fix it! Period. If you don't know how, follow the lead of Mitt Romney and outsource the consultant from a state that has it figured out and have them show you how! But in any case, get it fixed because America's about had it with your sunny incompetence!

Now that the election has ended, and America is back in the hands of the true guardians of freedom and liberty, we can rest easier. We can wake up in the morning and know that individual rights are a little safer and less ocntrolled by religious zealots in the name of Jesus Christ. We can know the inevitable economic recovery coming in 2013 will be credited to the administration that is responsible for it. And we can feel secure that we've given the Republicans a little more life, as they'll have someone to blame their own shitty policies and mistakes on and they'll have a devisive group to run against during the next series of elections.

A FINAL PREDICTION from THE-VOICE:
Lastly, far be it from me to tell the Republicans how to run their party and frankly I could care less if they ever bring themselves back to a respectable party, but I think in many Republican coat rooms across the nation today there were hundreds of come to Jesus meetings, examing where they've disenfranchised (there it is again) voters and Americans and how they can bring them back into the fold.
They'll experience a good deal of resistance from their hardliners and older members, but if they are to survive, a good leadership would suck it up and bring themselves into the new century. Seeing that Florida has been on a path to swing Democratic against most common conventions, if they want to keep Georgia, Texas, and Arizona in the 2016 election cycle, they're going to have to do something or they'll find these states that they've banked on since Ronald Reagan are back in the blue column where they were, and rightly belong!