Comment on British Adults Overwhelmingly Support UK Ban on Illegal Israeli Settler Imports
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoWhen deciding policy, political parties only care about the people who will vote based on that policy, or could be induced to vote based on that policy. Undecided voters might as well not exist (when they stay undecided). The normal definition of majority in politics is with undecideds excluded, and they’re typically only excluded by people dishonestly trying to downplay their opponents’ support. In local elections, people who are eligible to vote but do not are typically the largest group, but council seats are still given to people who win a majority
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You’ve started talking about political parties deciding policy, which is one way of looking at news, but not the way I’m thinking about it. I am, after all, not a politician or advising any of them :)
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s pretty obviously a political article and is explicitly making the case that Ed Milliband was right to make the policy change he did last week, so that’s the frame of reference the article’s expecting to be read from, and that means using the definitions of words that fit that frame of reference.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Do you understand why I think it’s misleading?
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, and as I’ve said, it’s only appearing misleading because you’re using a different definition of majority than the one the article was expecting you to use. If you were using the correct definition for a political context that a typical novaramedia reader would know they were using, it couldn’t be misleading as under that definition, the article is entirely correct.