> It's all well and good to say this now. > > But I remember that the United States people voted in the Republicans > overwhelmingly, and the Tea partiers especially.
The United States people did not. This was an off year election with a very low turnout. Much lower than 2008, and slightly worse than 2006 according to the United States Elections Project. The American system allows for a small group to have a very disproportionate impact on this sort of election. So saying the American People "voted in the Republicans overwhelmingly, and the Tea partiers especially" is a very misleading statement. Saying that in an off year election even more so. The total voter turnout in the 2010 federal election using one of the more generous measures was 41.5% according to Michael McDonald of the the United States Elections Project at George Mason University. So assuming approximately 1/3rd of the voters were die hard republicans (actually an overestimate according to some research) you'd have (300 million * .415) *.333 is 41,495,850 votes. Last I checked, 13% is no where near a majority, and definitely nowhere near the numbers needed to actually claim to represent the "The American People". Unless of course you are defining the American People as those who fit your particular ideology. This fits right in with the classic No Real Scotsman fallacy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:341525 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
