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Nope, I, am old enough to remeber and there was not talk of a mandate, other then winning.
Isn't there some quote about 'spending his political capital' suggesting that he thought he had a mandate?
Ah, here it is
""The people made it clear what they wanted," he said. "I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and I intend to spend it."
Exactly, it's possible he himself didn't use the actual word "mandate", but he isn't everybody either. The fanboys were going wacky.
The media gives Bush a mandate - Salon.comUSA Today headlined a Nov. 4 story Clear Mandate Will Boost Bushs Authority, Reach, which said that Bush will begin his second term with a clearer and more commanding mandate than he held for the first. (The first being when he lost the popular vote to Al Gore.) The Boston Globe asserted that Bushs victory grants him a clear mandate to advance a conservative agenda over the next four years, while MSNBCs Chris Matthews insisted, To me the big story is the presidents mandate. The president has a mandate.