I don't know about the landslide thing though. The country is pretty polarized right now. I literally think that TRUMP! could 2nd amendment somebody in front of witnesses and
still win the region of the country with no good beaches.
I also believe that Clarabell Clown could win those states if the Republican party elected him as their candidate.
he's fucking creepy enough
Wanna bet, Baldrick? Avi choice for a month? I say the media is playing with the numbers to create cliffhanger in order to sell advertising..she wins by landslide.
Landslide Definition
There is no legal or
constitutional definition of what a landslide election is, or how wide an electoral victory margin must be in order for a candidate to have won in a landslide.
But many modern-day political commentators and media pundits use the term landslide election freely to describe campaigns in which the victor was a clear favorite during the campaign and goes on to win with relative ease.
"It usually means exceeding expectations and being somewhat overwhelming," Gerald Hill, a political scientist and co-author of
The Facts on File Dictionary of American Politics, told The Associated Press.
Defining a Landslide
One generally agreed upon measure of a landslide election is when the winning candidate beats his opponent or opponents by at least 15 percentage points in a
popular votecount. Under that scenario a landslide would occur when the winning candidate in a two-way election receives 58 percent of the vote, leaving his opponent with 42 percent.
There are variations of the 15-point landslide definition. The online political-news source
Politico has defined a landslide election as being on in which the winning candidate beats his opponent by at least 10 percentage points, for example. And the well known political blogger Nate Silver, of
The New York Times, has defined a landslide district as being one in which a presidential vote margin deviated by at least 20 percentage points from the national result. Political scientists Hill and Kathleen Thompson Hill and say a landslide occurs when on candidate is able to win 60 percent of the popular vote.
Electoral College Landslide
Of course, the United States does not elect its presidents by popular vote. It instead uses the
Electoral College system. There are 538 electoral votes up for grabs in a presidential race, so how many would a candidate have to win to achieve a landslide?
Again, there is no legal or constitutional definition of a landslide in a presidential election. But political journalists have offered their own suggested guidelines for determining a landslide victory over the years. One generally agreed upon definition of an Electoral College landslide is a presidential election in which the winning candidate secures at least 375 or 70 percent of the electoral votes.