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To: Pontiac
How can the Dims elected a Majority Leader if Johnson Can’t Vote?

Doesn't 50-49 win where you live?

13 posted on 12/16/2006 5:53:33 PM PST by Jim Noble (To secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity)
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To: Jim Noble

If he can't vote it's 49-49.


15 posted on 12/16/2006 5:59:59 PM PST by smoketree (the insanity, the lunacy these days)
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To: Jim Noble
Doesn't 50-49 win where you live?

No....not if majority is required. By definition, majority is 50% + 1.

They don't have majority. They have the plurality, not majority in a 50 to 49 vote.

45 posted on 12/23/2006 12:10:41 PM PST by Heff ("Liberty is not America's gift to the world, it's the Almighty's gift to humanity" GW Bush 4/12/04)
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