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To: FreeReign
No, again just obtuse:

ma·jor·i·ty
/məˈjôrədē,məˈjärədē/

noun: majority; plural noun: majorities

1. the greater number.
"in the majority of cases all will go smoothly"
synonyms: larger part/number, greater part/number, best/better part, most, more than half, plurality, bulk, mass, weight, (main) body, preponderance, predominance, generality, lion's share
"the majority of cases"

antonyms: minority

•US
the number by which votes for one candidate in an election are more than those for all other candidates combined.

•British
the number by which the votes for one party or candidate exceed those of the next in rank.

•a party or group receiving the greater number of votes.

synonyms: (winning) margin, superiority of numbers/votes; landslide
"a majority in the election"

2. the age when a person is legally considered a full adult, in most contexts either 18 or 21.

synonyms: legal age, adulthood, manhood/womanhood, maturity; age of consent, coming of age
"my youngest child has reached majority"

74 posted on 04/12/2016 10:37:38 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong
the number by which votes for one candidate in an election are more than those for all other candidates combined.

Which by definition must be 50% +1. If you combine the votes of all of the other candidates, it is more than Trump has received, so by your own definition, Trump has not received a majority - and cannot receive a majority unless he gets more than 50%.

77 posted on 04/12/2016 10:42:37 AM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Robert DeLong
1. the greater number.

That's not the definition. It looks like you left off the "a number more than half of the total" clause in the definition from theFreeDictionary.com.

"in the majority of cases all will go smoothly"

If 49% of the cases go smoothy, that's NOT an example of a "majority" of cases.

No, again just obtuse:

I would call you obtuse, but that would be unfair to people who are obtuse.

You are utterly stuck on stupid.

79 posted on 04/12/2016 12:28:07 PM PDT by FreeReign
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