Politics Who is the best Republican president between Donald Trump and Abraham Lincoln?

Nothing is over my head as it has been clearly explained to you as well as the definition shown and you want to make up your own definition to fit your benefit. The only one that doesn't seem to grasp basic math is you. Good luck with that as pointing out a typo only makes your argument even weaker than it really is.

Let me try this one more time using your analogy. I am one group with 3 people in it and you are one group with 2 people in it. Which of us has the MOST in their group? Give yourself lots of time to figure it out and even use the internet to search for the answer.

 

No, not true. I need not go into why, but I know quite a bit about this. Here is a PBS segment on the causes of the war: "A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict."

 

How can anyone with half a brain argue this?

Let's put this in words that I hope you can understand. If 53% of Republican respondents support Lincoln and if 47% of the Republican respondents support Trump, which President has the most support? Hint: using a calculator is cheating.

 

Like I said, you don’t understand the fact that a word can have more than one meaning. That’s ok. Proceed with angrily typing up first grade math problems to try and prove how smart you are.

 

ah, so it's now becoming clear and you are really Rudy Giulliani and "the truth isn't always the truth." Do you really not see how foolish your thinking is?

 

lmao

 

^^^This !

The North won the Civil War with one arm tied behind their back. The only thing that my Southern forefathers had going for them was arrogance and poorly thought out rationale.

 

Fletch thought it was about ball bearing when it is really about the context.

 

... Spit out my vino when I read that.

 

You are correct that I have never heard of Mirriam-Webster.

Must be, as I suspected, a bogus knock-off of Merriam-Webster.

 

If you've got either 49% or 51 %, you've got about half.

Apples vary in size and weight, so it's a moot point.

 

I am wondering why Ike scored so low, when he is generally accepted by Republicans as the greatest President in history in nearly every poll or list compiled over the last 60 years.

Guess they polled an outlier of odd thinkers in their tiny group of carefully selected 1500 respondents.

 

most
/mōst/

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determiner · pronoun
determiner: most; pronoun: most

1. greatest in amount or degree.
   "they've had the most success"
   h
   Similar:
   nearly all
   almost all
   the majority
   the bulk
   the lion's share
   the mass
   the preponderance
   h
   Opposite:
   little
   few
   • the majority of; nearly all of.
     "most oranges are sweeter than these"
     h
     Similar:
     nearly all
     almost all
     the majority
     the bulk
     the lion's share
     the mass
     the preponderance
     h
     Opposite:
     little
     few

adverb
adverb: most

1. 1.
   forming the superlative of adjectives and adverbs, especially those of more than one syllable.
   "the most important event of my life"
2. 2.
   to the greatest extent.
   "the things he most enjoyed"

 

Few people would use most to describe 53%.

Most people would describe 53% as a slight majority.

 

Luckily, you don't speak for "most" people.

That Merriam-Webster thing has really got you up nights, eh?

 

That is true, but it's also true that the one that has 51% has most of them. Most isn't defined by how many more as that's what some people do to words on their own. They change the meaning to fit their narrative. No need to respond as I am done with this but by your other post you didn't read the old posts. It would probably do you good and read them as this has been discussed well past its usefulness.

 

This is literally all I’ve been trying to say. No, I don’t get decide what the writer had in mind, but I can sure guess. I think he chose sensationalism, and it worked. The title didn’t exactly scream ‘slight majority’.

 

lol...what title?...whatever it was, it certainly seems to have had the desired effect.

 

The misleading title of your thread. Wonder why it got changed? Lol.