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Sungyeon Yoon Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

what is "a mandate with credibility?"

"It’s going to be hard for spin doctors to turn this election into a mandate with credibility."

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This sentence is from an article about, of course, politics. I cannot figure out what is " to turn this election into a mandate with credibility." Does it mean to make this election somewhat believable or something?
  

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Sungyeon Yoon It’s going to be hard for spin doctors to turn this election into a mandate with credibility. There is no "mandate with credibility" here. , making an election which was clearly not a mandate look like an election which was a mandate).

— CalifJim

  • Sungyeon Yoon It’s going to be hard for spin doctors to turn this election into a mandate with credibility.
  • There is no "mandate with credibility" here.
  • , making an election which was clearly not a mandate look like an election which was a mandate).
  • It says that it is hard to do this in a credible manner.
  • It’s going to be hard for spin doctors to turn [ this election into a mandate ] with credibility.
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Sungyeon YoonIt’s going to be hard for spin doctors to turn this election into a mandate with credibility.
There is no "mandate with credibility" here. This is about the whole process of turning the election into a mandate (i.e., making an election which was clearly not a mandate look like an election which was a mandate). It says that it is hard to do this
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Thank you very much! But I still have a question; what is to turn an election into a mandate?
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Sungyeon YoonThank you very much! But I still have a question; what is to turn an election into a mandate?
I have already explained that in my previous post:

To make an election which was clearly not a mandate look like an election which was a mandate.

CJ
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