Joe....
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"Forty-three percent being, of course, the amount of the popular vote received by Bill Clinton in 1992."
You should know that nobody gives a rat's ass about popular vote in this country, it being a representative republic, and not a democracy and all. Important difference, as the last elections showed once again.
Yes, we can argue.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
I maintain that Hitler was not elected into the position that he later took. He sweet-talked Hindenburg into giving him the powers of Chancellor. Before that, the position in that extent did not exist. People did not vote for that. Hitler cheated his way into that position. There is a very important difference there. Barely one third of Germans voted for him.
So, Chancellor Hitler was not elected. I will give you this: His party was elected to represent 37% of germans. This partie's front man was hitler. BUT....Chancellor Hitler was NOT elected.
After all, a somewhat close analogy would be Al Gore seizing the presidency and then claiming he was elected. After all, he won the popular vote, and the Democrats represent about half of the US population! Which is far more than Hitler could claim. Hitler simply did not win the Chancellorship, he seized it. Which has nothing democratic about it.
But, then again, one third of Germans DID vote for him.
OTOH, he was acting out a position nobody elected him for.
I could argue with myself for hours and hours.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
