Electoral college aside:

According to the latest reports of CNN:

66,657,943 Million people (53%) of those who participated voted for Obama

58,209,688 Million or (46%) of voters gave thier support to McCain

Roughly a difference of * 8million people, or 6-7%

Certianly not a mandate from heaven by any means.

But hey we the people are used to getting f'd by politicians by now right?

Lets all be lovey dovey and swallow it all down and go back to being good little worker bees and ignore the problems with our media driven election system.

All while basically allmost half the country now is afriad of what this guy is really going to do once he is in office, especially since his party controls both houses yet again.

Same story as when Bush beat Gore.

Just different players and if you think things would have been or are going to be any different you havent studdied much history of late.

Every single one of them has worked to consolodate thier own power and the power of government (thier office) over we the people.

Even our founding fathers knew this:

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson

And for those that think the governement should be our benefactor and solve all our woes:

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson