FauxNews/AP qualify things. Obama's victory was "resounding" but maybe not a "landslide".

[jefferson_dem]

:rofl:

They got nuthin'!

Obama Victory Resounding, but a Landslide?
Historians offer an idea of whether to add another electoral landslide to the record books.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

WASHINGTON -- There's no set definition for what constitutes a landslide, but Democrat Barack Obama's resounding electoral victory Tuesday night seems to fit the bill.

Kathleen Thompson Hill and Gerald N. Hill, in their book, "The Facts on File Dictionary of American Politics," say a landslide can be defined as "exceeding expectations and being somewhat overwhelming."

With four states yet to be decided, the electoral vote count was 349 for Obama and 144 for Republican John McCain.

President George W. Bush, by contrast, won with just 271 electoral votes in 2000 and 286 in 2004. It takes 270 votes to win the presidency.

A look at past elections that might qualify as landslides:

--Franklin Delano Roosevelt over Alf Landon in 1936, 523 to 8.

--Theodore Roosevelt over Alton Parker in 1904, 336-140.

--Woodrow Wilson over Roosevelt and William Taft in 1912, 435-96.

--Warren Harding over James Cox in 1920, 404-127.

--Herbert Hoover over Alfred Smith in 1928, 444-87.

--Franklin Roosevelt in all four of his elections, with electoral votes of 472, 523, 449 and 432.

--Lyndon Johnson, who carried the tongue-in-cheek nickname "Landslide Lyndon" for his razor-thin 87-vote victory in a Texas Senate race, over Barry Goldwater in 1964, 486-52.

--Richard Nixon over George McGovern in 1972, 520-17.

--Ronald Reagan over Walter Mondale in 1984, 525-13.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/05/obama-victory-resounding-landslide/

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Well, if Teddy Roosevel counts...

[SuperTrouper]

2. And shit doesn't stink, it is the bacteria.

[WeDidIt]

3. 2/3rds of the electoral college

and a 6.1% gap in the popular vote IS A LANDSLIDE!

[Uzybone]

4. Teddys 336 to 140 is a landslide then Obama is a landslide.

[Fridays Child]

5. Who died and left Fuck Snooze in charge of adjectives?

It's our turn, now. Memo to Insanity, Billo the Clown, Steve Douchebag, and the rest of the Foxwads: It was a landslide. Oh, yeah, and one other thing...




GET OVER IT!

[MagickMuffin]

7. Obama BEAT McCain by MORE than McCain WON Electoral Votes

This is WHAT a LANDSLIDE LOOKS LIKE

Obama ....................... 349

- McCain .................... 163

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Left Over ECV's ............186




June 08 MagickMuffin

[bunkerbuster1]

6. It's an AP story, and maybe it's a reasonable question to ask...

I mean, I'm not calling it a "landslide," myself. It was a nice, decisive win. I'll take that.

[zbdent]

8. "There's no set definition" ... but if it's a Dem over a Repub

it's never a landslide ... even if the EV is 535-0, with 130,000,000 to 1 (even the Repub VP candidate voted for the Dem) ...

[yellowcanine]

9. Who cares what it is called.? Obama won easily in the end. And he brought with him a lot

of other Democrats. It is a mandate for change, which is all he needs.