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To: Non-Sequitur
Far from over- whelming support, he received only 39 percent of the popular vote, Yo, Judge. Lincoln received 180 electoral votes, 59.6% of the total.

The Judge references the 'popular vote'. You either didn't read the sentence correctly or you're practicing the standard NS MO of dishonest discourse.

This is killing you ain't it, NS. A well educated yankee judge validating all the arguments that I and others have been having with you for years.

26 posted on 05/06/2009 11:06:48 AM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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To: cowboyway
The Judge references the 'popular vote'. You either didn't read the sentence correctly or you're practicing the standard NS MO of dishonest discourse.

But as the judge surely knows, popular vote doesn't elect presidents. It's possible that even you know that. Popular vote is also not a great indicator of margin of victory. Ronald Reagon won the election in 1980 with 50.75% of the popular vote, a bare plurality. But he took 91% of the popular vote and his election is seen as a landslide victory and a repudiation of Jimmy Carter. So by listing only the popular vote, Judge Napolitano was either trying to downplay the size of Lincoln's victory or, given the overall poor quality of the rest of his scholarship, it's more likely he never bothered to check the electoral vote margin to begin with.

This is killing you ain't it, NS. A well educated yankee judge validating all the arguments that I and others have been having with you for years.

Not at all. If anything the miserable quality of the work is making Napolitano look stupid.

36 posted on 05/06/2009 11:29:31 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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