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Math question
« on: February 18, 2011, 02:12:32 PM »
At least 26 states are challenging Obamacare.

Last time I counted, there were only fifty stars on the flag.

So if a majority of the states are against this tyranny, haven't we won already  ???
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Re: Math question
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2011, 03:33:51 PM »
US Senate better take notice.

The Dems will lose more seats as the next 1/3 rotation comes up for re-election in 2012.

The House has already shifted.
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Re: Math question
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2011, 03:38:08 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on February 18, 2011, 02:12:32 PM
At least 26 states are challenging Obamacare.

Last time I counted, there were only fifty stars on the flag.

So if a majority of the states are against this tyranny, haven't we won already  ???

If we were a pure democracy, yes, that would be a clear win. ;)

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Re: Math question
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2011, 05:53:56 PM »
You're speaking as though the citizenry is properly represented.  :police:
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Re: Math question
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2011, 06:17:51 PM »
Quote from: PTK on February 18, 2011, 03:38:08 PM
If we were a pure democracy, yes, that would be a clear win. ;)



So instead a minority enforces its whim on the rest...  :mad:

Don't they have another word for that?
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« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2011, 07:10:23 PM »
They sure do, unfortunately. :(
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Re: Math question
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2011, 12:45:30 AM »
Quote from: Tallpine on February 18, 2011, 02:12:32 PM
At least 26 states are challenging Obamacare.

Last time I counted, there were only fifty stars on the flag.

So if a majority of the states are against this tyranny, haven't we won already  ???

Now you know why the Obama hath spoken 8 new states into existence.
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Re: Math question
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2011, 11:52:24 AM »
Quote from: Fistful on February 19, 2011, 12:45:30 AM
Now you know why the Obama hath spoken 8 new states into existence.

Is the State of Rebellion one of those?   =D
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Re: Math question
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2011, 11:55:39 AM »
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Re: Math question
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2011, 12:20:30 PM »
That might work in the Senate.

The last red/blue map of Oregon I saw showed 3 blue counties, 33 red.  The three blue counties (grrrr!  Get that "o" into "counties"!) easily, by population, dominate the rest.  Moscow-on-the-Willamette rules.

I suspect the 26 states fall far short of 50% of the population as a whole.
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Re: Math question
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2011, 08:35:33 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on February 19, 2011, 11:52:24 AM
Quote from: Fistful on February 19, 2011, 12:45:30 AM
Now you know why the Obama hath spoken 8 new states into existence.

Is the State of Rebellion one of those?   =D

Despair, Frustration, Gridlock, Preparation, Protest, Conflict and Insurrection are the others.

Obama's not winning any of them to his side.  I gots friends in those States. :lol:
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Re: Math question
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2011, 10:55:46 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on February 18, 2011, 02:12:32 PM
At least 26 states are challenging Obamacare.

Last time I counted, there were only fifty stars on the flag.

So if a majority of the states are against this tyranny, haven't we won already  ???
Not quite - there are 60 states; on the campaign trail Barack Hussein Obama said he'd visited 57 and only had 1 more to go . . . making 58. (He wasn't allowed to visit Alaska and Hawaii, running the total to 60.)    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

Now don't say he miscounted - that would involve the use of Eurocentric mathematics, which would be racist.
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