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To: capitan_refugio
An estimated 30% or more of the soldiers and officers in the confederate forces were from "slave-holding families."

Which, even if we are to take your unsourced claim as accurate, still leaves the other 70%, or a clear majority. To put that figure in perspective, if Bush were to win the election by 55% it would be called a landslide.

1,475 posted on 09/18/2004 11:46:26 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: GOPcapitalist
I hope Bush wins by a "landslide," but that traditionally is at the 60% level. The 1972 election is correctly called a "popular vote landslide." "Electoral College" landslides are less well-defined, because the Electoral College has a tendency to create the appearance of a mandate when one might not actually exist, as in the case of both of Clinton's elections.

If Bush does win real big, >15%, he has a good chance of getting a filibuster-proof Senate too.

1,496 posted on 09/19/2004 3:07:18 AM PDT by capitan_refugio
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