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Are we talking about Maxine Waters or Fidel Castro?
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This was the election I had in mind.Originally posted by Ramo
Well, it's worth pointing out that Saakashvili won his second term by considerably less than 96%, in an election that most observers considered free and fair. Still a tool, but probably basically reflective of Georgian popular will.
I gather his 2004 win was with 96%. Did the South Ossetians get to vote in that, I wonder?
Personally I am doubtful about these observers who generally seem to applaud elections where the 'right' guy wins and cast doubts on those where the 'wrong' guy wins.Comment
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I'd be surprised if the S. Ossetians got to vote. The idea that Georgia has a particularly strong claim to sovereignty over that province and Abkhazia is nonsense. Of course the Russians have a poor claim as well, but Saakishvili plays this game a hell of a lot worse than Putin and that's how the world rewards crappy players."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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The S. Ossetians number very, very few.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Electoral Votes 1984:
Reagan/Bush.......525.....97.6%
Mondale/Ferraro....13.......2.4%
Electoral Votes 1972:
Nixon/Agnew.......520.....96.8%
McGovern/Shriver..17.......3.2%Comment
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Without more information on the kind of election, we may imagine an election where someone is elected with 24 votes on 25.
25 voters, may be a administration council or some cultural/sport association.
Someone elected with 24 votes on 25 is not unusual in those associations.The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde.Comment
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Strictly speaking we're talking about percent of actual voters, not percent of electoral votes... they each had in the area of 60%, I believe.Originally posted by Deity Dude
Electoral Votes 1984:
Reagan/Bush.......525.....97.6%
Mondale/Ferraro....13.......2.4%
Electoral Votes 1972:
Nixon/Agnew.......520.....96.8%
McGovern/Shriver..17.......3.2%<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.Comment
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