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Bill3: In what primary did Romney win a majority of the votes?

Ex82: Son of a gun got the most delegates--how did that happen exactly?

Bill Clinton NEVER got the majority of votes. Most Americans voted for someone else both times he won the presidency.

How did that happen exactly? And I'm all for the wisdom of the electoral college, by the way.

Incidentally, it's crucial to remember that the first time Clinton won on a plurality, he was forced to move right because his plurality win, with the majority of the popular vote "against" him, enabled the Republican Revolution, which probably would never have happened if Clinton had had a popular mandate.

The second time Clinton won on a plurality, he was impeached.

And Clinton was fairly popular. Obama is loathed and he is WEAK. He is in big trouble with his supporters. Many who voted for him last time will desert him at the ballot box this time; there is very little chance he could muster even 50% of the vote. Of all years and circumstances to gamble on using a plurality to weaken whichever bastard wins, THIS IS THE ONE.

I'm voting for a plurality. If my side "wins" -- and the beauty of it is that every single third party vote, whether it's cast by a weenie Greenie, an angry Libertarian, a disillusioned former Obama supporter, a Ron Paulite, or a disgusted-with-the-charade, refuse-to-vote-for-depravity principled conservative limk me, will count TOWARD creating a plurality -- whichever asshat statist gets the White House in 2012, Obama or Romney, may very well be as vulnerable to conservatives as Clinton was.

It's a risk and a gamble, but risk is the price you pay for opportunity. There is zero risk with Romney -- it is 100 percent certain that he will make liberalism stronger. Zero risk, thus zero opportunity to move this country RIGHT. Pray for a plurality, because if Romney gets a landslide, it will be willfully interpreted as a popular mandate FOR Romney's "progressive style of governing -- Americans voted for it in droves!" and the fact that it was actually a referendum against Obama fueled by desperation and hysteria, would be spinned away and soon forgotten.