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October 6, 2017, 4:22pm
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JB_IN_TW:
45 was not elected with a mandate. That would require winning both the electoral and popular votes. Now, 45 has made it clear he has won both, but he wants to divide and conquer to population by screaming voter fraud and fake news.
He could have those things and still not have a mandate, by Rowlandian standards. (He would have to be a liberal, of course. Conservatives have the Mandate of Heaven.
[quote=“Mucha Man”]
I don’t think the low voter turnout means much. Blues stayed home because they knew they were going to lose. Plus Tsai got almost as many votes as Ma in 2012, the dpp swept the LY so there is no way to spin this. It was an unequivocal victory and the dpp have a clear mandate to rule.[/quote]
A more plausible narrative: this was purely a throw-the-bums-out election. Not a mandate for DPP, merely an angry rebuke of KMT.
If this goes to the English Vegetable’s head, there wil…
It seems to me there ought to be a corresponding expression in Taiwan Mandarin, and it seems to me I ought to be hearing it a lot about now.
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