C
Capitalist
Guest
Most places would have a run off. So perhaps Colorado should abide by the majority. After all, we’re in a democracy right?
Keep the Electoral College
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Nostra
Governor
Exactly. And he didn't.
Majority:
NOUN
majorities (plural noun)
- the greater number.
the greater quantity or share
As in..Nostra loses the majority of the debates he enters on PJ.
Far fewer congressional races involve a runoff than do in the US.
sear
Mayor
Thank you for corroborating my position.
- ah -
So you're pretending you're correcting some undisclosed error you fantasize to have perceived ?!
I challenge you or anyone else to precisely and succinctly disclose the details.
Meanwhile I stand firmly by the precise literal meaning of my posted words.
- I didn't call it a democracy. I didn't imply the U.S. is a democracy. I merely stated an irrefutable truism: the candidate that wins the vote wins the vote. I NEVER asserted that the candidate that wins the vote wins the election; perhaps a falsehood which you wish to attribute to me.
- "Majority rules", another term YOU introduced in this accusation, has no direct bearing on my factually valid observation.
You embarrass yourself C #158. You surely present yourself as a hero in your own mind.
I'll try to decrease my instances of correcting you, if you'll reduce your errors.
But I'd be less than candid if I didn't divulge that you look far worse in being corrected for attempting to correct me, and only compounding your own error.
Nostra
Governor
You lose again...........
Definition of majority
3a: a number or percentage equaling more than half of a total
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/majority
sear
Mayor
N #166
Webster is ok. AHD® is better, in many cases.
[French majorité, from Medieval Latin mâioritâs, from Latin mâior, greater.]
Usage Note: When majority refers to a particular number of votes, it takes a singular verb: Her majority was five votes. His majority has been growing by 5 percent every year. When it refers to a group of persons or things that are in the majority, it may take either a singular or plural verb, depending on whether the group is considered as a whole or as a set of people considered individually. So we say The majority elects (not elect) the candidate it wants (not they want), since the election is accomplished by the group as a whole; but The majority of the voters live (not lives) in the city, since living in the city is something that each voter does individually. Majority is often preceded by great (but not by greater) in expressing emphatically the sense of "most of": The great majority approved. The phrase greater majority is appropriate only when considering two majorities: He won by a greater majority in this election than in the last.
Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.
Webster is ok. AHD® is better, in many cases.
[French majorité, from Medieval Latin mâioritâs, from Latin mâior, greater.]
Usage Note: When majority refers to a particular number of votes, it takes a singular verb: Her majority was five votes. His majority has been growing by 5 percent every year. When it refers to a group of persons or things that are in the majority, it may take either a singular or plural verb, depending on whether the group is considered as a whole or as a set of people considered individually. So we say The majority elects (not elect) the candidate it wants (not they want), since the election is accomplished by the group as a whole; but The majority of the voters live (not lives) in the city, since living in the city is something that each voter does individually. Majority is often preceded by great (but not by greater) in expressing emphatically the sense of "most of": The great majority approved. The phrase greater majority is appropriate only when considering two majorities: He won by a greater majority in this election than in the last.
Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.
Who said that? You guys continue with your obfuscation of the issue. Did Bill Clinton get more votes than anyone else? If so, he won the popular vote.
Pretty selective of you since the same definition also includes this
the greater quantity or share
EatTheRich
President
EatTheRich
President
The Republicans are welcome to support policies that appeal to the urban majority.
sear
Mayor
ER #171
Not an insensible question. It's the answer that's insensible. It's because they're Republicans.
For you see ER, in the GOP parallel universe, Republicans are not only correct on all political disputes with Democrats. Republicans are also morally superior as well.
Classic example:
Republicans are pro-life.
Democrats are pro-baby murderer.
Now you tell me honestly. Which of those two seems worse to you?
Not an insensible question. It's the answer that's insensible. It's because they're Republicans.
For you see ER, in the GOP parallel universe, Republicans are not only correct on all political disputes with Democrats. Republicans are also morally superior as well.
Classic example:
Republicans are pro-life.
Democrats are pro-baby murderer.
Now you tell me honestly. Which of those two seems worse to you?
EatTheRich
President
New York City and Los Angeles have about as much diversity as the entire monoculture privileged by the EC.
EatTheRich
President
And as an opponent of statism you should be against it.
sear
Mayor
I've never been to California.
But I was born in New York, New York, the city so nice they named it twice.
I visited there in my youth, learning the cultural diversities of various neighborhoods, Greenwich Village, the upper East Side, etc.
I'm not much of a world traveler. But I know of no more cosmopolitan city than NYC.
Is NYC more conservative than Austin, TX ?
But I was born in New York, New York, the city so nice they named it twice.
I visited there in my youth, learning the cultural diversities of various neighborhoods, Greenwich Village, the upper East Side, etc.
I'm not much of a world traveler. But I know of no more cosmopolitan city than NYC.
Is NYC more conservative than Austin, TX ?
EatTheRich
President
The disproportionate votes of the backward areas of the country empower urban elites (like Trump) who are the common enemy of the urban and rural masses.
EatTheRich
President
Per voter, yes.Really? So Delaware has more representation in a Presidential election than California?
I saw a documentary on the republican weaponizing of the English language...like when they decided to call inheritance taxes (which had majority support) "Death Taxes" they won the fight....how could anyone support taxing a dead person?
Same with abortion...they are pro-life, democrats are not to be referred to as pro-choice...right?
Bumper sticker politics.
Nostra
Governor
Once again you are trying to redefine the definition of "popular vote" to suit your agenda.
Reality proves you wrong. Clinton lost the POPULAR VOTE by over 14 MILLION votes.
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