mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> In fj.life.in-japan B Robson <Xb-robsonX@gol.com> wrote:
> 
>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>
>>>In fj.life.in-japan B Robson <Xb-robsonX@gol.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>That is the first time you have actually said "popular vote". You are 
>>>>trying to put US politics into parliamentry politics without 
>>>>understanding them. You need to understand that the role of Chancellor 
>>>>is like that of a Prime Minister in other countries, there is no popular 
>>>>vote for the Chancellor, the makeup of the parliament (Reichstag) 
>>>
>>>
>>>There was, however, a popular vote for President, and Hitler was
>>>crushed.
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>>No he wasn't "crushed". There was a second round of voting because 
>>Hindenburg was not the clear winner the first time, I don't recall the 
>>figures.
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> 
> von Hindenburg got 49.6% of the popular vote in the first election, to
> 30.1% for Hitler.

crushed?


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>>That is how parliaments work.
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> Yes, we understand that.
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>>Minority governments have often existed.
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> And you're whiffing on the second point that overall the far-right ran a 
> Parliamentary majority.
> 

only if you ignore the socialists, the second largest party.