A new GOP mandate?

That’s a question Republicans and Democrats will be debating in coming days, as the GOP makes the case that its election victories add up not only to an electoral wave, but to a mandate — a genuine endorsement of conservative policies — while Democrats cast them as something less. …

If the victorious Republicans are smart — and many of them are — they will recognize that what they won on Tuesday wasn’t a mandate; it was an opportunity. CONT.

Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times

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