Merci de confirmer mes a priori sur Marseille . <| sep |> There are always more of them I ' ve noticed . They are diligent as fuck . And I couldn ' t , not after trying so hard to get em . <| sep |> link ? so i can catch it next week <| sep |> A mandate is moral authority accorded via large victory margin . A President doesn ' t govern in a vacuum , he has to work with Congress . Let ' s say that a Presidential candidate runs on a platform of heavily taxing peanut butter . If he wins 5149 %, he can ' t go to Congress and say , See , the American public wanted me , and therefore they wanted my tax on peanut butter . He barely won , and perhaps it had nothing to do with peanut butter . Maybe he ' ll get his tax and maybe he won ' t . If he wins 7030 %, he can go to Congress and say , Look , I trashed my opponent , I won all of your states , your people love me . They love me because they love my peanut butter tax . So get to taxing . That ' s the effect of a mandate . The Republicans can ' t say that the American public loves them . They can say they won the election but they did not get the majority of the vote . More Americans wanted someone else . They won ' t care though , since this election was not about governing the whole country , it was about differentiating the winning side from the losing side , and giving the winning side what it wants and giving the losing side nothing . This is the attitude we are going to see for the next four years .