Re: Vote for SOMEBODY!

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From: Steve Madden
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 00:00

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jtrainor@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu (John Trainor) wrote:

>In article <01bbcaa0$c18c5c00$90197fce@gdmedia.texas.net>,
>Gary <gdmedia@texas.net> wrote:
>>whatever it means to me personally.  My vote has never swung an election
>>yet, and the chances that it ever will are about the same as the chances of

>Ok, now for a little lesson in calculus and in voting.

>In integral calc, there exists a little bitty thing of infinitesimal
>size. we will call it a 'dx' in this discussion.  Alone, this
>'dx' isn't much, it is really small.  In fact, its width approaches
>the length 0.  Well, although it is not much alone, if you add
>up all of these little 'dx' pieces, you get the big area under a
>curve.  So, without the contribution of all of the 'dx' pieces,
>we would not know the area, or the area would be incorrect.

>Your vote is very similar to the 'dx'.  Alone, it seems fairly
>insignificant.  All of the 'dx's' summed together, though, make
>a picture of who should serve in what role in our government.  Without
>your vote, the election is incorrect and the voice of you and the
>electorate has not been accurately portrayed.

The moral of the story: Don't just stand there with your 'dx' in your
hands, get out and vote!   :-)  (Sorry, couldn't resist)

I agree wholeheartedly with John's premise.

Steve

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From: lightnup@mindspring.com (Steve Madden)
Subject: Re: Vote for SOMEBODY!
Date: 1996/11/04
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