Well, it happened.

Despite an economy we're all still waiting to bounce back, Barack Obama snagged a second term.

But to all those talking heads last night, I still don't see a mandate—aside from the one in the reform law. The Dems held onto the Senate. The GOP kept the House. And Obama's margin of victory actually shrank in the face of withering jobs numbers.

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