The 2012 election, we were told, would provide clarity. One side or the other would emerge with a mandate. The losers would have to accept the voters’ judgment and back down. Soon, legislative gridlock would give way to constructive deal-making, and progress would be made on the great issues of the day. Well, the results are (largely) in, and Washington finds itself delivered of not one mandate, but several. Consider:
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