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- From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Gloat
- Message-ID: <8890TB12w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 13:41:42 GMT
- References: <9211110859.04@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov9.154319.11088@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwd4f@poe.acc.Vir
- > >In article <9211060901.30@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes
- > >>Actually, the "Will of the Electoral College" has spoken.
- > >>
- > >>He lost the popular vote.
- > >
- > >WRONG, CAVENEWT. Just because he did not get 50% of the popular vote does
- > >not mean he lost. Clinton received 5 MILLION more votes than his nearest
- > >competitor, George "Loser of the 90s" Bush. This is a win, not a loss.
- >
- > I should have said:
- >
- > He did not receive a majority of all the votes cast for president. He receiv
- > 43 % of the popular vote, so he did not get a mandate from the people.
-
- Hardly any President will have had more people vote for him than not vote for
- him. After all, only about 2/3 of Americans even bother registering to vote.
-
- So for example, Bush never received a mandate from the people, as fewer
- people voted for him than didn't vote for him.
-
- > It is a significant statistic.
-
- Hardly.
-
-
- mathew
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