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In article <Bx7GxD.A9C@apollo.hp.com>, holbrook@apollo.HP.COM (Alan R.
Holbrook) wrote:
> 
> ...I have been wondering all day how a man who
> got only a plurality of the vote and who beat the next man in line by only 5%
> can be said to have been elected by a landslide or won by a blow-out.  But I
> have heard both of those things said.

Those things are always said when the victory shows a large margin anywhere
-- in the popular vote, in the Electoral College, whatever.  It doesn't
mean anything.  Everyone said Nixon and Reagan and Bush won by landslides,
too.  It didn't mean anything then, and it doesn't mean anything now.

On the other hand, it is clear that Bush LOST by a landslide, and so did
Perot.  It's also clear that Clinton won EASILY, because Bush threw it all
away and Perot never had a chance to begin with.

> Actually, Mike, what I'm waiting for is for all the "The U.S. is so evil/Throw
> Another Conspiracy on the Fire" group to start gloating about Bush's defeat,
> as I'm sure we can count on them to do.  Then those of us who understand some
> simple mathematics can have fun pointing out to them that the majority of the
> people indeed did NOT throw the bums out.

Oh yes, we sure as hell did.  Between now and the inauguration we will all
be watching Bush -- together with his thieving buddies and the far-right
goofballs he tried to sell out to -- go sliding in slow motion across the
pavement, some on their faces, some on their asses, hats falling off,
clothes getting dirtier and more raggedy all the way until they finally
skid into the gutter all in a dirty, smelly heap, just like the bums they
are, having been thrown out good and proper by the American Voter.  The
math is indeed simple: when it came down to voting time, they could no
longer scare, bribe, or bully very many people into voting for them.  They
lost big.

Conspiracies?  Hell, the conspiracies are always there.  With the Bush
League, it was just that the conspiracies were so cheap and cheesy and
obvious, like what you'd expect from some lame ex-CIA hack who no longer
has the CIA apparatus exactly working for him, 'cause they know a loser
when they see one.

Gloat?  You bet your bruised little Republican ass, Alan, we're gonna gloat
some.  Get used to it.

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David Casseres
Exclaimer: Wow!