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Krauthammer: "Obama Won But He's Got No Mandate"

Charles Krauthammer opines on President Obama's victory.

Krauthammer: I know enough about psychiatry that I don’t get between Karl Rove and the decision desk. I’ll leave the titans to fight it out. It is pretty clear that -- the chances are infinitesimal that Romney could pull this out. I think the real story here is that Obama won but he’s got no mandate. He won by going very small, very negative. We are left as a country exactly where we started, but a little bit worse off. The Republicans are in control of the House, probably a little bit stronger, they are not going to budge. There’s no way that, after holding out against Obama for two years, they’re going to cave in. Obama doesn’t have anywhere really to go. He governed very large in the first two years. When he had control of the congress, he nationalized healthcare, he passed the largest stimulus, which was all kinds of industrial policy supporting green energy. All of the large ideas and he tried to enact them, and then when he lost control of the House, he stopped. In order to win reelection, he went small, stayed small putting together his constituencies here and there. And he put it together enough that he won. If he manages to win the popular vote, it will be very small, if there’s any. And even in the electoral, I think it will be a very small majority. Particularly if Virginia and Florida will go to Romney. So this is not a mandate in the number, or in the way that he campaigned. He did not campaign on any ideas. Anything large. Anything important. He didn’t address entitlements of tackle anything like that. He will go back to who he is. People have said he should be a Clinton and compromise to have a successful second term, but he is not instinctively a moderate. I think he is a man of the left and he will try to push his agenda through, with, what he thinks is a mandate and we are going to be exactly where we were, say, a year ago with the debt ceiling argument next year. And the problem is that the country will slide, because I don’t see the opportunity for compromise on either side, because I see a president with a very weak mandate for a second term.