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To: Zoltan! who wrote (9840)10/28/1997 12:39:00 AM
From: sepku  Read Replies (2) of 77400
 
--OFF TOPIC--

>>>Less than half of registered voters turned out. clinton got less than 49% of that vote.<<<

ROFL!! Ok, let's try to educate you -- a daunting task, I know! Here are some elementary facts for your benefit re: our election system.

*The number of registered voters has no correlation with actual voter turn-out.

*Voter turn-out is the voice of the people for who wins a public election.

*Any registered voter who does not exercise his/her right to vote, forfeits that right (and does not give a damn who wins, therefore is stuck with whoever does).

*The voters who ultimately TURN-OUT, make up the actual voting population from where the decision will be determined -- NOT the actual number of registered voters (a right to vote means nothing if it is not exercised).

*Majority vote wins.

*Registered voter turn-out was approximately 70 - 75% of the voting population, if I remember correctly. This % turn-out represents the ACTUAL voting population with a say in the election (those who give a damn). Since Clinton won somewhere in the high 40's % of those votes, he therefore won the election on the votes of the majority. Dole received the table scrap minority votes, with a few crumbs falling to the 3rd part candidates.

END of lesson.

Now! Print this out and study it religiously, you are not prepared for 2000.

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