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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Climate models are wrong.
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 16:57:24 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <OE%wP.111374$_N6e.54654@fx17.iad>,
Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) writes:
>>In article <vq0mjl$kq3f$1@dont-email.me>,
>>William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>By the way, I live in a province, not a promise.  Maybe it's a promising 
>>>province.  So they have been saying my entire life, anyway.
>>
>>Well, they're promising four more years of Ford, anyway. 
>
>Which one? Ah, I see Rob has passed.   Doug sounds like a
>trump clone, sadly.

Well, he's not ideal and a lot more Ontarians will suffer and die
than necessary. However, he can be shamed and embarrassed and
there's even (a very small) chance of legal consequences for his
more egregious transgressions.  

The election did serve as a nice example of the counter-intuitive 
results possible in a multiparty election using first past the post:

PCs: 43% of the vote, 80 seats
NDP: 19% of the vote, 27 seats
OLP: 30% of the vote, 14 seats
Grn: 5% of the vote, 2 seats
IndL 1% of the vote, 1 seat

So, the party opposed by almost 60% of the electorate got a majority
because the anti-PC vote is split between three parties, and vote 
distribution meant the Liberals needed about three times as many 
votes per seat won than the NDP. 

(For various reasons, not least that the Voter ID cards didn't show
up on time, voter turnout was only 45%. So, only 19% of the voters
actively wanted our majority government)


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