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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: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:58:56 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211110859.04@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Nov5.160816.17514@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1992Nov5.181512.5296@dsd.es.com> <9211060901.30@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Nov9.154319.11088@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov9.154319.11088@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:
- >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 received
- 43 % of the popular vote, so he did not get a mandate from the people.
-
- This isn't important now. What is important, is what he does in the next four
- years.
-
- It is a significant statistic. Nixon didn't either in his second term.
-
- >you sure you didnt let duh duhdson log onto your acct, there, rick?
-
- No way. I'd shoot him on sight.
-
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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