Featured Trump's Landslide?

No he did not. We have not had a president win by a landslide since Bush in 88 with 426 electoral votes and 53.4% of the the popular vote.
My primary critera for a landslide victory would have to be winning over 50% of the popular vote. Trump only got 46.3% of the popular vote, a plurality not a majority. Also it helps if you actually did win in the popular vote not just the electoral vote. And if you are going to look at the Electoral college I think you need to hit at least 400 in the electoral vote which he did not do either.

 

Trump is rank 38 out of the last 46 elections for his electoral college win. I based that on % of the electoral votes since the electoral college has grown over time to its current 538 votes. This only takes into account the from the 10th election on because of how they changed how VP were selected after the 1800 election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin

 

Yes I know. I assume that is because of the changes made to how VP were elected after 1800s. Before that electors had 2 votes and who ever got the majority was President and whoever came in 2nd was the VP which would not be true comparison to our system now of just 1 vote for a President VP set.

Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

 

Here's my definition of landslide:

 

I would agree, 2008 was a landslide.

But I'm not sure if I would count 2012. Keeping your opponent under 200 EC votes would be my (arbitrary) threshold.

 

306 EC to 232 EC you bet it was a landslide

 

Sigh, I'd rather break it down how I believe this thread looks for you, ITL. I merely see this as a set-up question by an antagonist who is generally looking for an argument which he begins by purposely neglecting to define the premise, meaning he is riding on the subjectivity of the definition of “landslide”, while asking for a conclusion based on this ambiguity – most likely for the juvenile purposes of attempting to belittle the victor and/or his claim of victory and to be critical against anyone who would support the win in a way whereby he unwittingly shows how sensitive he feels about the victory sounding too certain to him.

IOWs, basically, something amounting to a sour grapes argument by thinking he has a “gotcha” on anyone who would dare use the term “landslide” and get into a big ole debate on the definition of landslide and attacking anyone that would use it, how fun! Therefore, I would prefer to just be critical back about the question and simply define the win as a decisive victory and save him going into his persnickety little nonsense argument.

Obama won by a decisive victory also – to the detriment of our country.


Friendly advice: Get off the #NeverTrump agenda, except the change and start seeing the light of the bigger picture ITL. You'll feel better...