# Hillary can't be Secretary of State?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-cant-be-secretary-of-state/474485>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 25, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-cant-be-secretary-of-state/474485 "2008-11-25T21:52:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-cant-be-secretary-of-state/474485/81 "2008-12-16T23:42:53Z")

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> [@erislover](#):
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> Um, 10 senators is not less than 1/10th of the senate. It is exactly 1/10th of the senate. So you seem to be correcting the wrong person.

I suggest reading lessons. 😉  
**TWDuke** stated back in post #43 "10 Senators, which would be fewer than 1 out of 10 Democratic Senators at the time, "  
**Captain Carrot** responded “how is 10 Senators of any party less than 1/10th of the Senate?” This, of course, presupposes that the Senate was entirely filled with Democrats.

To this, **TWDuke** replied “Math is hard.” Since there was no sense of apology in his statement, I took this to mean that **TWDuke** was saying to **Captain Carrot** that **Captain Carrot** had failed to properly calculate “1 out of 10”.

My response establishes that 10 Senators would not be fewer than 1 out of 10 of the whole Senate, let alone that part of it which was Democrat at the time. In short, **TWDuke** ’s math is suspect, as **Captain Carrot** pointed out.

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