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What is a silent majority?

What is a silent majority? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (politics) The largest portion of a demographic group or of the population of a political jurisdiction, which is considered to possess political and social views that are not openly declared, but that can nevertheless significantly affect voting patterns and social behavior.
  2. (archaic, euphemistic) Those who are dead.
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They might not be the silent majority, but they are quite possibly a substantial minority who just might decide this election.
But, if there was, I do not wish to address a determined and silent majority.
The Liberal government will use its majority to ram it through the House, putting its trust in the continuing silence of the silent majority.
The intersection is essentially between the Brotherhood, the military, the revolutionaries, and the heretofore silent majority.
In consequence we are becoming a tight-lipped silent majority afraid to rise above the parapet.
Now the silent majority will be watching him like a hawk, putting everything he says under the microscope of what is and what isn't acceptable.

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