Adrift...asea...
as a far tide...
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So i was just mulling over this Elexn
thing which just happened and
decided to glance sidewise at the
Results. Some of the Republican
operatives attempted to point out
that more Americans voted for
this President than any in history.
My first visceral response was,
Genius! There are just plain more
of us now than ever. Geometry!
But i think they were trying to back
up the ephemeral Mandate thing.
With an implied message that more
Americans voted for our candidate
than any other historical figure.
I'm sure they meant to really say that
more Americans voted in the Race
for President overall. [again, because
there were more voters & more people
mathematically speaking.]
Hang with me for a minute while i try
to fashion a corrective/correctable
cursive Analysis...The final numbers
may not bear out my Process but here
goes>
In 1984, Ronald Reagan won a landslide
re=election. He carried 49 states in the
general Election and 525 Electoral Votes.
Of the Popular vote, President Reagan
had 54,455,075 ardent supporters.
(That's almost fifty-five Million people
who thought Dutch was their Man~i was
not among that group.) This was an
Historic event to be sure. More=over it's
a nice looking number allto. [Divide 525
into 54455075 for more interest]
As i said, i'll be glad to be corrected by
the actual 2004 numbers...but since
everyone today is playing Poker, i will
just point out that a LANDSLIDE beats a
MANDATE which beats a PLURALITY which
trumps any Election thrown into the Supreme
Court OR into the House of Representatives
or Senate. For more on unusual elections,
simply read an Almanac. {i am such a nerd.}
Proviso: anyone who voted in 2004 can
comment to this Analysis; evybody else should
quit kvetching and Register for the next
Municipals!
Friday, 12 November, 2004
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Tomorrow, or shortly there=the=after, i'll be
especially humourous...or something.
~slacbacalmanacmac, the pondiferouscloud
of slacamathematical enigmas on the InterWeb
Thingy^ advise mit smooches^^>>
6 comments:
I think it takes a lot of chutzpa to call this thing a mandate. There was an awful lot of red in the middle of the country...but it was no slam dunk. What's a mandate in a country so divided? The map looked like perhaps we should just sever off the two coasts and SET us as adrift..it's certainly how many of us feel.
Thanks Kat~agreement>
Read the anagrams [who's about the
text?] Meanwhile, advise me of our
MENTOR=mumsy/dancer/merelyp that
our Confluent Love Arises in her!
many smooches, much love>>
hmmm..some people crave big mac's, some people crave oreo's...
not me - i just had a slacattack...
and so i came to see what you were up to. i am glad you are still pondering for the rest of us. i too wondered aloud just recently about the turnout figures - seems they forgot to evoke the term einstein - "it's all relative." it's simple math, eh? but the C student spun it differently, once again...
on a more joyous note - today, the children and i danced again in the living room -
it was in surroundsoundhighfi slacadelic style...
funky.
hmmmm. Put your calculators away. Its a done deal. Concentrate on happy things. It will be exactly what you make of it. Grumble along with the rest, or find the beauty in the days ahead of us.... its your choice.
OK. Anyway that buys that garbage!! See Slac!!
Oops, Candi Rice will be bowing & scraping from a higher hi-chair!
ugh!
V
{deep reply:} Condoleezza is like my
Especial girl=friend. But, yeh, the State
Department isn't a schtep up...
[read the slac Advisedly othres>]
~Author
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