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- From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
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- Subject: Re: Clinton wins in LANDSLIDE - NOT!!
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 14:51:32 GMT
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- phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel) writes:
- 'joec@fid.morgan.com (Joe Collins) writes:
- '>
- '>Bill Clinton did not win in a landslide at all....he won a simple
- '>plurality, i.e. more votes than anyone else. In fact, some 57-58%
- '>of all voters voted for someone OTHER than Bill Clinton, i.e.
- '>a BIG majority of voters opted for someone other than Bill Clinton.
- '
- 'Well -- you could look at it another way: some 62% of all voters voted for
- 'someone OTHER than George "Herbert Hoover" Bush.
-
- Yeah, but Bush lost with 62% against. Clinton won with 55-58% against.
-
- 'Yes, he won a popular plurality (even if it was an electoral landslide), not
- 'a majority.
-
- '>Secondly...The democrats, on balance, lost ground in Congress.
- '
- 'Huh? I though that the Dems GAINED ground in Congress. Didn't they reach
- '60 members in the Senate -- enough to break a Republican filibuster? I call
- 'that quite a significant gain.
-
- Not yet. Democrats gained a net of one right now for 57 Dems total with
- one more seat (GA) up for grabs. Democrats lost about 15-20 seats in the
- House (net).
-
- 'I undertand that the Dems DID lose in STATE assemblies, though, for the most
- 'part.
-
- Not in the governors races though. I think they gained 2 or 3.
- --
- Emil Thomas Chuck eyc@acpub.duke.edu Biomedical Engineering 1993
- THANK GOD IT'S BASKETBALL SEASON!!!!!
- I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm
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