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Old Aug 17, 2005, 02:51 pm   #14 (permalink) (top)
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In business, 51% is the magic number. If you control 51% of the votes you make the policy.

I'm not so sure of your 51% number as the actual number in either of the last two elections, but I'd take that flip of a coin number any day.
But the US government is not run like a board room is it? Half of our representatives are democratic. In a buisiness the 49% has no say, and is SOL if the 51% want to screw them. That is not how our government is. Especially since many decisions take a 2/3 majority. So lose the terrible analogy.

What do you mean 51% is not an acurate number? Bush won by the skin of his teeth. The majorities in the congress are razor thin. Are you contesting that the country is basically evenly divided?


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