Probably it was just because the couch got wedged in the doorway.

But it's not the tyranny of the 51%. It's the tyranny of the 26% over the 25%, and the apathy of the other 49%. If we had closer to 100% voter participation, sure, that would make sense. But implicit in the statement "This is more important than reelection" is an acknowledgement that elections aren't won by whose…