While we can agree that the popular vote is NOT a metric for electing a PresidentYes, there is no true definition of what constitutes a landslide election in the POTUS election. However, there are several ways to look at the subject and the only way that anyone would describe Trump's victory as a "landslide" is the "he did better than expected" argument. A rather weak argument at best., some sources say: There is no legal or constitutional definition of what a landslide election is. Like your source, for example. Some people say: "It usually means exceeding expectations and being somewhat overwhelming". Like your source, for example - which raises the question, was the electoral vote count of Trump 304, Hillary 227, Other 7 (according to achives.gov), when measured against the Five38 poll the day of the election, which projected Hillary at 302 vs Trump at 235 electoral votes "...exceeding expectations and being somewhat overwhelming".
I would say it was and believe that GEPOTUS would agree. Clearly Hillary might say it was soul crushing and wonder What Happened - endlessly. But I would counter argue that she has no soul.
BTW: One might also calculate ((227/304)*100) to yield a 75% margin of victory Originally Posted by Why_Yes_I_Do
Trump lost the popular vote. He won 4 states by between .2% and 1.2%. Very rarely in the history of this country seen an election decided by such a small number of votes in such a few states.
"A landslide victory in politics is an election in which the victor wins by an overwhelming margin."
https://www.thoughtco.com/definition...ection-3367585
"There isn't really a specific margin to a landslide victory but a good ballpark figure to go by would be 70% representation."
https://politics.stackexchange.com/q...ictory-is/9649
"Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight also looked at Trump’s victory in historical context and concluded it was “a bit Orwellian to call it a ‘landslide’ or a ‘blowout.'”
Silver found that the percentage of electoral vote won by Trump — 56.9 percent — was well below the historical average, 70.9 percent. Silver found that Trump’s share of electoral votes ranked 44th out of 54 elections going back to 1804. Before that, he noted, “presidential electors cast two votes each, making it hard to compare them to present-day elections.”"
https://www.factcheck.org/2016/11/trump-landslide-nope/
