patrick.net

Majority = greater than 50%. Vast means of very great extent or quantity; immense.

When I first used the term vast majority, I figured it just meant very large majority. In the context of elections, where these things are very close, education is a very good indicator of who people are going to vote for. Those leads are bigger when you look only at white people, and huge if you look at white women. Her leads that I found cited above were 15-25% and sometimes over 30% for white women. That's why people keep commenting that Trump is doing nothing to win over the suburban woman vote, which is going to sink him in PA. Although I thought that vast majority was apt in this context. However, I looked it up and a couple of the top hits indicated that it should be used for 75% or more or 90% or more. So, 60%/40%, which is a 20 pts lead would not qualify by that definition even though it is huge in political elections..

See my edit... My stupid iPad cut off my last point because I used less-than symbol. DoH!

Is what I meant...

Vast majority, is a stupid term.
Majority = 50.1%
Therefore vast majority is MOST of the majority, which is a percentage less than 50%

Vague term at best.

(Whatever my last post got so mauled, I'm almost giving up trying to make the point.)

junkmail says

Therefore vast majority is MOST of the majority, which is a percentage less than 50%

What you are describing is the vast majority of a majority. But nobody used that term. A vast majority is just something much greater than a 50% majority.

turtledove is deplorable says

All you are doing is proving my point. So thank you for that.

LOL. Yes described a broad set of voters which you tried to counter by describing a narrower set of voters. That fails, by definition, whether if comes from his “beloved source” or not. You moved on to word substitution in order to manufacture insult and succeeded in insulting yourself, so I guess we can count that as somewhat of a victory. Then you pretended he didn’t mean what he said, used word substitution again to try and introduce yet another set of voters different than the one he brought up in the first place, and called him smug. Presumably this grows the insult….by whom is a question you might ask yourself. It appears you’ve annoyed yourself enough.
I’m pleased you can manage to be grateful and continue to be wrong about what you and I and he said as well as the very underlying words all at the same time. That’s some feat.

There is no “more truth” inhering in the difference between a term denoting an absolute and a colloquialism effectively meaning ‘’more by great degree” unless one is determined to be insulted by the use in the first place.

turtledove is deplorable says

despite the fact that we understand what the person meant.

I understood it to mean vast majority. Which I would usually interpret to mean somewhere in the range of 65 to 90%.

If I were trying to convey nearly all, I would say nearly all, or "virtually every well educated person," something along those lines.

I think you're defensive, about liking Trump, for some reason. Maybe it's becasue you are getting in touch with your not deplorable side.

It is true Liberals lie like a rug.

If Satan himself were the republican candidate and Jesus was the democrat candidate, you would still have at least 40% of the republicans and even a significant number of educated republicans voting for Satan.

That's just politics. Man, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would be slamming Jesus so badly. TPB would be having the time of his life getting all excited about the wonderful changes Satan was going to be bringing to America.

Btw, all kidding aside, do you think Trump could be the antiChrist ?

marcus says

Trump could be the antiChrist ?

Trump is the second coming...
Cheeto edition.

marcus says

If Satan himself were the republican candidate and Jesus was the democrat candidate

it'd be the first time I'd ever vote for a GOP presidential candidate.

marcus says

do you think Trump could be the antiChrist ?

No, he's just a garden-variety #DoucheBag

What was all this about Wikileaks being fake?

Today's leaks so far, now the third big doc drop since Friday:

* Aides worried her Iowa Campaign will false start (which it did) if Hillary doesn't drop 'hatred for everyday Americans' --- according to HER OWN AIDES. https://t.co/LagLTjONrW
* Hillary got veto power over NYT Quotes in Article
* Came up with a Catholic Conspiracy Theory ( https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4364 )
* Pushed Donald, Carson and Cruz as early as April 2015. If Hillary loses to Trump, blame her campaign, brought it on themselves.
* Sandberg of Facebook shared research with Clinton Campaign in Early 2015 (unclear if Facebook or Personal Research - why Facebook came out publicly yesterday for Hillary, to get ahead of email leaks). Remember that Facebook employees claimed they were encouraged to downgrade certain stories.

... and Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress is a complete non-progressive.

It doesn't matter November 9th is National uninstall Facebook and Twitter day.

They'll have their day in stock market hell.

Bwahahahahahaha

I'm seeing more and more Trump yard signs here ... hearing the same from friends in Florida, NY, California. Unbiased sources report huge early-voting and absentee advantage for Trump.

Best guess: Trump at 480+ electoral votes - maybe loses Rhode Island & Connecticut or Massachusetts.

Thunderlips Russian Agent 0069 says

* Aides worried her Iowa Campaign will false start (which it did) if Hillary doesn't drop 'hatred for everyday Americans' --- according to HER OWN AIDES

It is very clear that the aid is referring to the phrase 'everyday Americans.' These are writers talking about what words to use in a sentence. Here's the full quote:

I know she has begun to hate everyday Americans, but I think we should use it once the first time she says I'm running for president because you and everyday Americans need a champion.

The quote makes sense if 'it' in 'use it' refers to the phrase 'everyday Americans.' It's a trite phrase, and I hate it too.

Are you misrepresenting the quote on purpose or do you hate Hillary so much that you are blinded and can no longer see what is plainly sitting in front of you?