12-02-2003, 11:14 AM
Nobody said being Republican makes you a superhero Acid. AH....people who hold to tradition in their political values are stubborn
and stupid? Sounds like a comment from someone who is desparate to start slinging mud in a futile attempt to look educated. No Acid,
I generally don't agree with many if any liberal views...I do find many of them very humorous and entertaining. But I would take a look in
the mirror...I don't think you have agreed with anyone on ANY subject EVER in this forum. I would think that the Devil's Advocate persona
would be getting old now. You say both parties are trash....now come on....that's the government of your country....YOUR country. Why
would you bad mouth it.....does it make you feel better to verbally bash the government of the greatest country the free world has ever known?
And lastly I am not going to call you a liberal....you are far from a liberal....liberals at least stand for something. You just sound like the spoiled
child who didn't get asked to play ball, and now he wants to make everyone think that the ball game sucked anyway.
Wha?....dilluting the vote is a term in reference to a 'weakening' of the vote. You have 1000 people who normally vote for candidate A over B, and you
suddenly get candidate C join the race. When people out of those 1000 start to cast their usual vote for A to C, they are dilluting the vote normally given to
A. It's the same thing here in my city. If you have 2 people running for mayor, one white and one black....the black candidate will win straight out....people vote
straight on the race line here it seems. Now...if you happen to throw in the one white candidate, the black candidate and now another black candidate running
independently, you have a dillution of the vote for the original black candidate. He won't get his strong usual vote because it is now divided with him and the independent.
I think it has very clear meaning and has been in use for decades.
and stupid? Sounds like a comment from someone who is desparate to start slinging mud in a futile attempt to look educated. No Acid,
I generally don't agree with many if any liberal views...I do find many of them very humorous and entertaining. But I would take a look in
the mirror...I don't think you have agreed with anyone on ANY subject EVER in this forum. I would think that the Devil's Advocate persona
would be getting old now. You say both parties are trash....now come on....that's the government of your country....YOUR country. Why
would you bad mouth it.....does it make you feel better to verbally bash the government of the greatest country the free world has ever known?
And lastly I am not going to call you a liberal....you are far from a liberal....liberals at least stand for something. You just sound like the spoiled
child who didn't get asked to play ball, and now he wants to make everyone think that the ball game sucked anyway.
Wha?....dilluting the vote is a term in reference to a 'weakening' of the vote. You have 1000 people who normally vote for candidate A over B, and you
suddenly get candidate C join the race. When people out of those 1000 start to cast their usual vote for A to C, they are dilluting the vote normally given to
A. It's the same thing here in my city. If you have 2 people running for mayor, one white and one black....the black candidate will win straight out....people vote
straight on the race line here it seems. Now...if you happen to throw in the one white candidate, the black candidate and now another black candidate running
independently, you have a dillution of the vote for the original black candidate. He won't get his strong usual vote because it is now divided with him and the independent.
I think it has very clear meaning and has been in use for decades.