In 2004 Bush got 62,040,606 votes in 2008 Obama got 65,431,955, considering the millions of new voters that Obama obtained through illegal ACORN actions, if the Conservatives that were basically told to stay home by the press had came out and voted, this would have been a McCain victory. So the press can pretend there is a mandate, but I don;t remember them acting that way with GW and he had very similar numbers.