Yuschenko won 51.9% of the vote...will

[ikojo]

it be called a mandate? If the media whores do not call it a mandate then why did they say * had a mandate?


From the NYT

With All Votes Counted in Ukraine, Yushchenko Wins 51.99 %
By C. J. CHIVERS

Published: December 28, 2004

snip

His victory was clear, but it was not as overwhelming as voter surveys at the polls and early tallies had suggested. With the prime minister receiving more than 44 percent of the total, it was evident that a good part of the country opposed the presumptive future president.

Moreover, the results showed a deep geographic split, with the south and the east voting for Mr. Yanukovich by wide margins.

Mr. Yushchenko, facing a polarized electorate, must now select a cabinet and a prime minister and begin trying to forge a new, post-Kuchma identity for the country.

[MrMonk]

1. ...

nothing to add, after all.