On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:31:04PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Likewise, the 2002 election was not a runaway for any candidate (unless > > you're a Republican, where defeating a Democratic candidate by less than > > one percentage point counts as an "overwhelming mandate" for a > > hard-right conservative agenda.) > > That's some other group, not debian. I was, in fact, referring to the 2002 DPL election in my main statement. The parenthetical was a reference to the 2002 U.S. Congressional elections for the sake of a joke. Sorry for the confusion. > > > In these votes, > > > the winning option hasn't needed to satisfy that kind of requirement, > > > but even if they had it wouldn't have been a problem. > > > > Well, yeah, it would have, unless I just plain don't know how to read > > the results, which I suppose is possible. > > I'm not sure what you're saying, here. Were the votes I was citing as simple majority victories actual simply majority victories? I was just going by the tally of votes for the most-dominant-option over the 2nd-most-dominant option. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | belly laugh. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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