• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      1 year ago

      70% of Republicans (some small government, eh?) and 40% of Democrats voted yes.

      All my math is wrong. See below for correct numbers.

      • @davel@lemmy.ml
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        Republican: 126 / (126 + 88 + 0 + 4) = 58%
        Democrat:   147 / (147 + 59 + 0 + 7) = 69%
        
      • @kn33@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        What math are you doing? I got 69% aye from the Democrats and 58% aye from the Republicans.

        Republican: (126 ÷ (126 + 88 + 4)) * 100 = 57.80% Democratic: (147 ÷ (147 + 59 + 7)) * 100 = 69.01%

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          88 is 69.84% of 126… Oh, I see my mistake. Haha. Thanks for the correction. I calculated what percentage of yes the noes are, instead of what percentage of total voters voted yes. I’m hella dumb! In my defense, I was still drinking my morning coffee, and nobody should ever listen to anything I have to say that requires rational thought before I have two cups of coffee.

    • Possibly linux
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      11 year ago

      And yet people say conservatives won’t vote to stop surveillance. I think we need to stop thinking about political lines. The drama with Trump definitely opened some eyes.

      • @jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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        111 year ago

        But they didn’t vote to stop surveillance? It was not stopped. They are the majority and they did not stop it.

        • Possibly linux
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          31 year ago

          True but its better than the complete bipartisan support it used to have

          • @jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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            21 year ago

            These are like Lauren Bobo, Gaetz, and Green. This is unfortunately not a principled stance but instead because their cult leader told them to “KILL FISA!” IDK if better is the word. It is certainly a broken clock that was correct about that particular time of day.

      • Night Monkey
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        -31 year ago

        You aren’t supposed to recognize when some politicians do something right. Just scream about the orange man constantly.