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To: sepku who wrote (9845)	10/28/1997 12:46:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Please state the post as I wrote it. "Less than half of those eligible voted. clinton got less than 49% of that vote." "That is a minority of a minority." Dumb and dyslexic. What a way to go through life! My condolences to your keepers. BTW, what is the great signifigance of putting "--OFF TOPIC--" on your last post? Haven't they all been so?

To: sepku who wrote (9845)	10/28/1997 2:09:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

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. Actually a runoff system that required an actual majority to win would be a good thing. We don't require a majority to win only a plurality, which is with what Clinton won. majority - def 3a: a number greater than half of the total. plurality - def 3c: a number of votes cast for a candidate in a contest of more than two candidates that is greater than the number cast for any other candidate but not more than half the total votes cast.