34%

That would be the president's latest approval rating.

Yeah, there's a mandate for you.

Here are some interesting facts about the 2004 election. We've often heard that Bush received more votes than any other president in history (I assume this is where he got his crazy mandate idea). What we do not hear is that there were also more votes cast against him than against any other president in our history.

This would be about population growth and lack of third party candidates, not a mandate for change.

His 6.3% margin over Kerry was also the smallest by any encumbant president in our history.

So again, what mandate is he talking about?

Would you like to know Cheney's approval rating? 18%. Wow.

You know who has an even lower approval rating? Can you guess?

Did you even try to guess?

The governor of the great state of Ohio, Bob Taft. As of a couple of weeks ago, his approval rating was 16%. The truly sad part? That's an improvement. He bottomed out at 6% back in November.

There's really just nothing else to say. The numbers pretty much speak for themselves.