"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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Then that's what you should have said. But you still would have been
wrong.


That is essentially what I did say and I was right.



If you have one more vote than the opposition, then you have a
majority.


And when you have the same number as the opposition you do not have a
majority.



The time-honored practice of the president pro tem voting to
break a tie ensures that the presidential party will have a majority.


No, it assures the presidential party will have control. To have a majority
requires holding at least one more seat than half of the total.