Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team
by wtbob on Friday November 11, 2016 @08:27AM
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His phrase, 'he got less than 50% (as Clinton got more votes than him),' implies that Mr. Trump received less than 50% because Mrs. Clinton received more votes than him, which is not true: they both received less than 50% because a significant portion of voters chose not to vote for either.
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Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team
by Jtsummers on Friday November 11, 2016 @10:35AM
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If there are at least two candidates in an election, and one has more votes than all the others, none of the others can have over 50%.
This does not, strictly speaking, imply that the winning (by plurality rules, not majority rules) candidate has over 50%, it merely sets the bounds on what all other candidates can have.
Clinton has more votes (popular vote) than Trump, ergo, he cannot have had 50% of the vote. That was my statement, and it's a factual statement. You interpreted it to imply that she, then, must have had over 50% of the vote. That was not my statement nor my intended implication.