Claim The Mandate, Part Ii | The New Republic

Claim The Mandate, Part Ii

The battle to define Tuesday's expected outcome has begun.

As if on cue, Craig Shirley and Tony Fabrizio have an op-ed over at Politico, claiming "Millions of Americans have come to erroneously see Bush as a conservative when nothing could be further from the truth.  This election will more accurately be a referendum on Bush's 'Big Government Republicanism,' and not Reagan conservatism, not our conservatism."