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To: grania
Uhhhhhhh....isnt' a majority still something greater that 50%?

Yeppurs. The proper term here is "plurality", as in "Bill Clinton was elected twice to the White House with a plurality, and never won a majority." It's pretty pathetic that Newsweak can't even get the terminology correct.

63 posted on 08/24/2003 7:30:22 AM PDT by dirtboy (Arnold's positions are like the alien in Predator - you can't see them but you know they're lethal)
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To: dirtboy; grania
The proper term here is "plurality",

It's pretty pathetic that Newsweak can't even get the terminology correct.

Maybe they hired the guy from NASA who screwed up the kilometers/miles thing on that Mars probe. ;-)

82 posted on 08/24/2003 8:30:57 AM PDT by StriperSniper (The Federal Register is printed on pulp from The Tree Of Liberty)
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