
USING THE MANDATE

For Obama, high expectations and high hurdles
Agenda to take shape in time of great crisis

WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama takes office in January, propelled by the greatest percentage of the popular vote by a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, his party has high hopes that it has a mandate to push through the ambitious agenda Obama laid out in his campaign. (Full article: 978 words)
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