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- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Gloat
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:30:42 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211151830.44@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <9211110859.04@rmkhome.UUCP> <8890TB12w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Lines: 49
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- In article <8890TB12w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
- >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.
-
- It is a significant statistic if you consider that there have only been
- three occasions since WWII when a President was elected with less than a
- majority of the popular vote. Admittedly this election was different, in
- that a third party candidate got a significant percentage of the vote.
-
- But never mind that. We're now back to business as usual.
-
- From the November 15, 1992 Boston Sunday Globe. ( without permission )
-
- ADVISER INDICATES CLINTON MAY DELAY ECONOMY PLANS
-
- LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A top econimic adviser to President-elect Bill Clinton
- said yesterday that action on many of Clinton's campaign promises, including
- a middle-class tax cut, will be postponed until the economy is strong
- enough to sustain new pressures on the federal budget .....
-
-
- Here we go again.
-
- --
-
- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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