A landslide of 57%? I've never heard it referred to as a landslide before.
That's a 14 point spread in a two-way race. That is a landslide.
George Bush won a landslide in 1988 and got 53.4% of the vote. In 1984 Reagan won 58 to 40% and it was the biggest landslide in history. I would consider anything over 53% for GW a Kerry ass-whoopin'.
Under the conventional wisdom that the major party candidates get 40% no matter what, the election focuses on the middle 20% -- anything better than 55-45 is considered a landslide.
Besides, if Bush does get 57% of the vote, he'll probably get over 350 EV, which would also be considered a landslide.
A landslide of 57%? I've never heard it referred to as a landslide before.
Considering that the last three presidential elections didn’t have a single candidate with a simple majority, 57% would absolutely be a landslide of historical proportions.
Reagan only got 51% against Carter, and his 59% against Mondale was by all measures a huge landslide.
Reagan won a landslide at 55%. Anything more than 10 points is a landslide.
Such a number would mean a landslide in electoral votes.
There can be popular vote landslides and electoral college landslides. Just for comparison, here are a few landslides of the last century. I think 1920 is particularly interesting because it clearly was a popular vote landslide but the electoral college wasn't in the same class as the others. On the other hand, 1984 wasn't quite up to the other popular vote landslides, but was right there in electoral votes:
1984
Reagan 58.8% 525 electoral votes
Monday 40.5% 13 electoral votes
1972
Nixon 60.3% 520 electoral votes
McGovern 37.7% 17 electoral votes
1964
Johnson 60.6% 486 electoral votes
Goldwater 38.6% 52 electoral votes
1936
Roosevelt 60.6% 523 electoral votes
Landon 36.8% 8 electoral votes
1920
Harding 60.5% 404 electoral votes
Cox 34.2% 127 electoral votes
Yeah, but compared to what the dimwits would have everybody believe, 57% is huge and a comparative landslide.
According to Webster's: "An election victory in which the winning candidate receives a substantial majority of the votes, usually meaning at least ten per cent more than any opposing candidate."
Landslide, schmandside.
How much of a margin will it take for us to be able to tell the Dems to STFU???