Quote from LongShot:
your wrong.
yes, they "believe he should not be asked to leave" but this is NOT same thing as saying "STAY!" If they wanted to cast an affirmative vote for jimmie to STAY it is a simple as voting "STAY JIMMIE!" DUH! But they did not! They have, in effect, abstained from voting either way. Even if they want him to leave [or stay] they aren't going to ASK him for whatever their reasons [or they would have cast vote "a" or "b"]. Jimmie says he will go if the majority ASK ASK ASK him to leave. The majority has ASKED him to go. "c" did not ask him to leave but they did NOT ask him to stay either! Therefore, he should GO! GET IT!!?? Geeez .. :-/
But they don't have the option of casting the vote "stay" because the poll doesn't offer it. According to you, they should have voted (b).
But why should we simply accept your take on it? Especially since it is highly illogical. As James said, in a poll that asks "should I
leave, how in the world do you manage to interpret the response "
no one should be asked to
leave" as anything but a vote for Jimmy to stay?
Even if these (c) people do want Jimmy to leave, because they believe that
no one should be asked to, they are, by default, agreeing he should stay.
Why they don't want to ask him to is
immaterial. They are
not asking him to. If the question was "should I stay"? And they said "no one should be asked to leave", then there would indeed be difficulty in interpreting their response. As it is, there is none. It is quite clear.
And again, Jimmy does
not say he will leave if the majority "ASK ASK ASK" him to. Longshot says that. Jimmy says he will
honor the poll. Read his first post.
(c) did not 'abstain'. They
voted. Abstaining means
not voting. Quite elementary.