When Was The Last Presidential Landslide, Democratic Landslide

[maddowfan]

Anyone know the history here?

When was the last presidential landslide? Regan 1980?

When was the last presidential landslide for a Democrat?

[Alter Ego]

1. Last landslide: Reagan 1984.

Last Democratic landslide: Johnson 1964.

[SteppingRazor]

2. 1984 was one of the biggest landslides in history.

As for a Democrat, no Democrat has won over 50 percent of the vote since 1964. I imagine the last landslide was FDR.

[Wizard777]

15. I think the biggest landslide in History was FDR.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. Carter Won > 50% In 76 Narrowly

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[Clio the Leo]

23. I remember being 11 years old and hearing them say that word...

... and thinking how funny it was.

"Was there really land that had moved?" I thought to myself.

[Occam Bandage]

3. Last Presidential landslide was 1984.

Last Democratic landslide was 1964.

[SunsetDreams]

9. Still that looks even redder than it was.

Wasn't it only 44 states, not 49?

[Occam Bandage]

10. No. Reagan won every state but MN in '84. You're thinking of 1980.

[SunsetDreams]

26. okay thank you :)

[Mz Pip]

4. LBJ

in 1964. Clinton won by a pretty big margin in 1996 but I wouldn't call it a landslide.

[billyoc]

29. Clinton didn't even get a majority.

[villager]

5. LBJ '64 was the last Demo landslide....

...with enough support in Congress to pass Great Society legislation, etc.

Of course, Vietnam undid that legacy, and then the toxic politics of the '68 Republicans -- which we're still living with -- undid any gains even further...

[Uzybone]

6. For a democrat it was LBJ in 64

It was the mother of all landslides.

61% popular vote. 486 Electoral votes.

[WI_DEM]

7. 1964 for Lyndon Johnson 61-38 over Goldwater for dems

I guess Bill Clinton in '96 and '92 was an electoral landslide of sorts but not really a popular vote landslide either year (I consider a landslide winning popular vote by over 10-points)

[Robbins]

8. Last Dem Landslide

Johnson In 64.He crushed Goldwater,and helped Increse the Democratic majorities In Congress.When
you hear the Great society mentioned It was because of Johnson and the 1964 landslide.

[GoesTo11]

11. 1992 and 1996 were very strong electoral vote victories

But not majority of votes and certainly 1996 was not a sweeping victory in terms of senate and house.

In terms of a solid overturning of the previous control (and counting the start of the trend in 2006), we haven't seen that in favor of Dems since 1932. The Republicans had something like this under Reagan and it persisted more or less until now.

Polarity shifts are rare.

[Razoor]

12. FDR's first term election was a landside for the dems

1932

I just love looking at all that blue

[blueclown]

13. 1984 and 1972 were the last Republican landslides.

1964 was the last Democratic landslide.

[Wizard777]

14. I think this is going to be a Roosevelt (FDR) landslide.

I'm projecting an Obama win in 31 states. I think FDR's record was 32 states maybe 35. I'll have to look it up to be sure.

[trackfan]

19. In 1936 FDR carried 46 of 48 states

Only Maine and Vermont went to his Republican opponent, Alf Landon.

[Wizard777]

28. You're right! Thank You.

[scheming daemons]

16. Electorally, '92 and '96 were landslides.

'96 was a landslide in pop vote.... clinton won by 9%.


The last BIG Dem landslide was 1964.

[maddowfan]

18. So Reagan Had The Biggest?

He won every state except one in 1984?

I know FDR could be big.

[VADem11]

20. Not necessarily

LBJ won the most amount of the popular vote in history. Reagan carried 49 states and FDR carried 46 out of 48. Technically, Reagan won the most electoral votes of any candidate in history.

[WI_DEM]

24. In terms of popular vote percentages Reagan is not #1: LBJ, FDR, Nixon, Harding all won

bigger popular vote victory than Reagan.

[WinkyDink]

21. Ask Wednesday, and we'll say, "OBAMA '08."

[maddowfan]

22. Thanks For Editing Your Post

lol.

[Vidar]

25. FDR.

[Timmy5835]

27. The last landslide was in 1996

The Clinton-Dole election. Even though it was a three way race and Clinton did not get over 50%. The lead he had was a blowout.

[Ganja Ninja]

30. Electorally that was a landslide

[WI_DEM]

31. a landslide is usually considered when the popular vote winner wins by 10 points or more

and Clinton got won by just under 9-points in 1996. Electorally it was a landslide, but not as huge as Eisenhower in '52/'56, LBJ in '64, Nixon in '72,Reagan in '84, Bush I in '88.