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SingingAnalyst
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« on: February 03, 2018, 02:56:02 PM »
Freedom list! I find it fascinating that (1) two elections were lost by the PV winner that weren't even nail-biters (1876 and 2016), and (2) there were so many landslides-- nearly half! Also remarkable that there have been none since 1984.

Also, 1980 clearly stands out as a non-landslide (PV margin was 9.73%, not 10%) even though Reagan '80 won the 5th biggest EV share in history (behind FDR '36, Reagan '84, Nixon '72, and-- by a whisker-- Lincoln 1864). Most people I know who came of age in the '80s (and who voted for Reagan) consider it a landslide.
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« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2018, 09:44:38 AM »
« Edited: February 04, 2018, 09:47:13 AM by mathstatman »
There's probably no "perfect" way (firm yes or firm no) to delineate a "landslide". Perhaps consensus is best. Everyone agrees 1936, 1964, 1972, and 1984 were landslides (even though in each case if you polled 10 voters at random, on average 4 would have voted for the loser, which hardly sounds like a romp); 2000, 2004, and 2016 were close; and 2008 was somewhere in between.
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