But beyond the witicism [at least I think it's a witicism...could be the truth, I suppose] that's a hard call when you are running an election. When you run an election you have to go for every single vote that it's possible to get. Elections are too amorphous to control that expertly...expertly enough to know that you are getting just the 51% and that it's only the "right" people voting for you. You've got to go all out to get as many votes as you can...because in an election you control very little of what is happening out in the voting society.
You just can't cut it that fine. If you tried, you'd probably end up losing 90% of the time. Any little thing that could go wrong would sink you (ask either Bush...or Gore). You need margins, you need to appeal broadly because you just don't know how many votes from strange and different places you are going to need to win.
And the worst thing in the world...the biggest waste of your life's time and money is spending it in the nasty business of elections, if you are going to risk losing. No bigger bummer, nothing that could be a bigger, more unpleasant waste of your time. No human being in their right mind subject themselves to it unless they were really going to try everything to win. Losing is just a complete waste, it never gains anything.
Most likely there aren't 51% that are freedom-loving, but there are 51% that are most freedom-loving.
But beyond the witicism [at least I think it's a witicism...could be the truth, I suppose] that's a hard call when you are running an election. When you run an election you have to go for every single vote that it's possible to get. Elections are too amorphous to control that expertly...expertly enough to know that you are getting just the 51% and that it's only the "right" people voting for you. You've got to go all out to get as many votes as you can...because in an election you control very little of what is happening out in the voting society.
Yes, you give the point of view of somebody who is "running an election". The point of view I gave was of one who is most freedom-loving.
BTW, I thought Bush's 2000 campaign was prefect. He won -- generally speaking -- with 49% of the vote that was most freedom-loving.