The media polls, telling us what we are supposed to think

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by TexKan

Gee ya'll are smart!!.............


My majority Bubba -

100% = all the votes (even tho it was only prob 30% of reg. voters to begin with)

48 + 45+ 17 = 110....... now we ALL know we aint gettin 110 pennies or percent out of ANY politician.......... no matter what the party!!

So here ya go:

Clinton - 48% (if you say so)

Losers - 52%

More folks liked the losers as a group than they did the alternative....... Clinton needs 51% to get a majority......... but remember the very very small percent of folks that vote anyway........ that's why there's so much discontentment.......... easier to bitch than vote.........

So math isn't my strong point!

I can see your point if there were only two. But if there are three or more you have to seperate it further. By the way, I didn't say Clinton for a reason, I even went as far as saying him/her in the example. My scenario would work no matter who got the votes either in the past or in the future.

Let me fix my math and also look at your example.

Candidate 1 = 48%

Candidate 2 = 52%

Using an example of your scenario candidate 2 has the majority of the votes.


Using more than two candidates.

Candidate 1 = 48%

Candidate 2 = 35%

Candidate 3 = 17%

Using this scenario, candidate 1 has the majority of the votes. How do I come to this conclusion?

#1-48%>#2-35%
#1-48%>#3-17%

Comparing candidate 1's total to both #2 and #3 he/she clearly had more votes than either of the other candidates. More still means majority.

[TexKan]

Oh Bubba...... you know I can't "math" my way out of anything. Not my strong point either....... was just too easy to add up to let it slide by. Still the issue us what is a "lighter shade of pale"????....... The GOP will say it was a "majority"....... the truth is nobody gets the "majority" vote....... cause the true majority of us don't vote....... I look at the whole picture and no matter how ya divide it up........... 48% never will be the major part of 100%. It's a damn good showing - no doubt but when you see only 30% cast a vote - they all lost to me - cause only a minority felt any of them were good enough to warrent going to the polls to begin with..... Politics = business as usual........... Personally I voted for Perot........ my kinda guy...... too bad everyone was so scared of him. Funny thing is - his predictions of the global market are a sad reality now..............