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From: miket@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Trout)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Another Effect of Computers
Summary: avalanche...
Keywords: information chaos
Message-ID: <5646@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 28 Mar 89 17:35:19 GMT
References: <8903140313.AA01117@violet.berkeley.edu> <93894@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <3482@ficc.uu.net>
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In article <3482@ficc.uu.net>, jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes:

>     Or, for that matter, the 1980
>     election -- Reagan eked out a bare majority, but the press
>     called it a landslide, as Carter was about six %age points
>     behind (Anderson, Clark, Commoner, et alia got the rest).

Six percentage points IS a landslide.  True, the media should do a better job
in showing how Reagan's vote totals in 1980 and 1984 were really quite less
than a "mandate," but a look at American political history shows that six
percentage points is an unusually high margin of victory. 

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