Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Happy.Hobo" Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: OT: "Every American"... Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 23:40:49 +0100 Organization: On The Road Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: PaOKB2RZbRTWSboABBc5fg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:99962 On 2/6/17 4:17 AM, dorayme wrote: > In article , > "Happy.Hobo" wrote: > >> On 2/4/17 11:19 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: >>> More than half of voters voted for Hillary Clinton- by a margin of >>> nearly 3 million. Trump was effectively elected by a handful of voters >> >> There were a heck of a lot more than three million who didn't bother to >> vote. > > What relevance is this? If all, or even 75% of eligible voters had voted, it may have come out the same--we don't know. It's possible they stayed home because they thought Trump didn't have a chance and they were cool with that. Or it's possible they stayed home because they thought Trump didn't have a chance and as much as they wanted him in, they hadn't the initiative to put on a jacket for a lost cause. Change the names and you get two more of many possibilities. In otherwords, more than half of the people who actually voted doesn't tell us much about what more than half of the eligible voters wanted.