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Originally Posted by evman150
Assign a truth value to the following statement:
75% of Canadians did not vote for the Conservatives.
The answer is true. You can plea all you want, but the statement is still valid.
Doesn't mean the claim is substantive in any way, however, which is obviously your point.
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While it might be true it also doesn't prove anything.
I've got friends in basically every political party out there (that is relevant) and believe me every party claims the non-voters in one way or another as people that would've likely voted for them, had they voted.
Some claim that advocating for a PR system is the rallying cry of the sore losers, but IMO adding people who didn't vote at all to the opposition figures is really the cry of sore losers everywhere. I would guess that the numbers wouldn't be skewed by an enormous margin if 100% of people cast a ballot....probably in the magnitude of 5% swing.