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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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To: Heff

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

The majority referred to is the majority of actual votes, not the majority of possible votes.


46 posted on 12/23/2006 1:22:36 PM PST by lawdude (2006: The elections we will live to die for!)
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