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Originally posted by porsche996: Bush won a majority, he won the electoral college, and a little over 51% of the voters in this country want him in there.
Technically speaking, that's incorrect. He didn't win 51% of the voters in this country. He won 51% of the participating voters.
But that's neither here nor there.
(I would argue the people who didn't vote at all are the stupid ones)
_________________________ "Nature has constituted utility to man the standard and test of virtue. Men living in different countries, under different circumstances, different habits and regimens, may have different utilities; the same act, therefore, may be useful and consequently virtuous in one country which is injurious and vicious in another differently circumstanced" - Thomas Jefferson, moral relativist