On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:54:22 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:

In article , Renata wrote:
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:35:26 -0700, Doug Winterburn
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One tally shows him winning by 3 milliion votes. Outta 120 million.

Closer to 4 million.

My heavens! Now he's up from 1/4 of 1% to 1/3 of 1% !
An overwhelming amount of support if I ever did see one! Yupper!
Gotta grasp those straws where one can.

Let me guess: math wasn't your best subject in school, was it?

Hint: one percent of 120 is one-point-two.

For the record, here are the actual figures:
Bush 60,608,582 (51.231%)
Kerry 57,288,974 (48.425%)
Nader 406,924 (0.344%)
[Source: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pag...lts/president/ ]


The problem here is that the prez and the rest of y'all have decided
that you'll just ignore the nearly equal number of Americans who voted
against the guy. And, that a lot of folks voted for him because they
were scairt.

The difference is 3,319,608 votes out of 118,204,480 cast, or 2.806%.

Yes, I threw in an extra zero.

But this seems to be the SOP. 3% margin dictates a mandate; a couple
ancient shells indicates massive stockpiles of WMD; well, you get the
idea.

Renata