{"id":18381,"date":"2016-12-05T19:04:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T19:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18381"},"modified":"2016-12-05T19:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T19:04:21","slug":"trump-redefines-electoral-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18381","title":{"rendered":"Trump redefines electoral ‘landslide’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump is measuring electoral landslides with a different set of parameters than most of us.<\/p>\n

The president-elect keeps saying he won the election this past month “in a landslide” over Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n

Hmm. I wonder about that.<\/p>\n

When I was studying political science in college, I always believed an electoral landslide — when talking about presidential elections — usually meant something akin to a 10-percentage-point popular vote margin, give or take.<\/p>\n

The landslide elections in my lifetime occurred in 1952 and 1956,\u00a0with Dwight Eisenhower’s two election victories over Adlai Stevenson; 1964, with Lyndon Johnson’s landslide win over Barry Goldwater; 1980 and 1984, with Ronald Reagan’s wins over Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale.<\/p>\n

The 1988 election with George H.W. Bush defeating Michael Dukakis came close to a landslide.<\/p>\n

Then you can measure Electoral College landslides, which often don’t coincide with popular vote landslides. George H.W. Bush scored an Electoral College landslide over Dukakis; Bill Clinton rolled up big Electoral College margins over Bush in 1992 and Bob Dole in 1996; Barack Obama’s electoral-vote victory in 2008 over John McCain could be called a landslide.<\/p>\n

Now, back to the president-elect’s preposterous assertion of a “landslide” victory over Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

He’s now trailing the loser by 2.6 million votes nationally. Yes,\u00a0Trump won the Electoral College vote by a comfortable margin, at 306-232 — but it ain’t a landslide by what I consider to be most people’s measuring stick.<\/p>\n

By all means, Trump won the election. He’s going to be the next president. However, the president-elect\u00a0needs to stop with the delusion that he won by a landslide.<\/p>\n

It was a squeaker, dude, in a\u00a0deeply divided nation. Furthermore, he would do well to listen to the views expressed by the\u00a0majority of those who voted against<\/em> him.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump is measuring electoral landslides with a different set of parameters than most of us. The president-elect keeps saying he won the election this past month “in a landslide” over Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hmm. I wonder about that. When I was studying political science in college, I always believed an electoral landslide — … Continue reading Trump redefines electoral ‘landslide’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[631,6717,1551,1892,2139,2238,2491,4017],"class_list":["post-18381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bill-clinton","tag-election-landslides","tag-electoral-college","tag-george-hw-bush","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-ike","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-ronald-reagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18383,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18381\/revisions\/18383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}