Obama in 2012 and 2008 exceeds G. W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 on all fronts, electoral college count and popular vote.
Obama should celebrate his double landside as did Bush in 2004.

http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/main
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-07/nate-silver-led-statistics-men-crush-pundits-in-election#p1
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

2004 presidential election mandate