Re: it was a landslide

Not a landslide. 1984: Reagan 525, Mondale 13 1972: Nixon 520, McGovern 17 (Gap: 5) 1980: Reagan 489, Carter 49 (Gap: 31) 1964: Johnson 486, Goldwater 52 (Gap: 3) 1988: Bush 425, Dukakis 111 (Gap: 61) 1996: Clinton 379, Dole 159 (Gap: 46) 1992: Clinton 370, Bush 168 (Gap: 9) 2008: Obama 365, McCain 173 (Gap: 5) 2012: Obama 332, Romney 206 (Gap: 33) 2024: Trump 312, Harris 226 (Gap: 20) 2020: Biden 306, Trump 232 (Gap: 6) 2016: Trump 304, Clinton 227 (Gap: 2) 1960: Kennedy 303, Nixon 219 (Gap: 1) 1968: Nixon 301, Humphrey 191 (Gap: 2) 1976: Carter 297, Ford 240 (Gap: 4) 2004: Bush 286, Kerry 251 (Gap: 11) 2000: Bush 271, Gore 266 (Gap: 15) ("Gap" indicates the difference between the winning total on that line and on the line above.) Even granting the assumption that the popular vote is irrelevant to determining a "landslide," over half the elections since 1960 were won by a larger electoral vote margin than Trump's this year. The bottom eight on the list above can probably be fairly characterized as "close." The next four -- Obama twice and Clinton twice -- might justify "mandate," but probably not "landslide." The top five are landslides. Trump this year got only six more electoral votes than Biden in 2020, and only 11 more than Kennedy got in 1960, a legendary squeaker. hugzu ;-p