Originally Posted by djmaddmartin
*sigh*
You're really going to make me go dig through my old college books and start quoting you something that had you payed attention to in High School Civics you'd have already known aren't you?
ma·jor·i·ty Audio pronunciation of "majority" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m-jôr-t, -jr-)
n. pl. ma·jor·i·ties
1. The greater number or part; a number more than half of the total.
2. The amount by which the greater number of votes cast, as in an election, exceeds the total number of remaining votes.
from CNN.Com
Bush (Incumbent): 62,040,606 (51%)
Kerry: 59,028,109 (48%)
Nader: 411,304 (1%)
I will refer you to definition 1.
And now from a College textbook "Government by the People" (Burns, Peltason, Cronin, Magleby, O'Brien, Light) National Version, Twentieth Edition.
"Majority(Plurality)Rule Majority Rule--governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority--it is a basic rule of democracy. The majority candidate or party is the one that receives more than half the votes and so wins the election and takes charge of the government until the next election. In practice, however, majority rule is often plurality rule, in which the candidate or party with the most votes wins the election, even though it may not constitute a true majority of more than half the votes. About a third of our presidents have won with pluralities in the popular vote rather than majorities." (page 9, paragraph 3)
Why don't you try talking about something you actually have a clue about?




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