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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Trump Landslide?

Tweet by Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway:
306. Landslide. Blowout. Historic.
Nate Silver's reply:
Actually way below average for a winner's total:
1984—525
1980—489
1988—426
1996—379
1992—370
2008—365
2012—332
*2016—306*
2004—286
2000—271
W's 271 electoral college votes in 2000, of course, were during the election that took a couple of months for Poppy's Supreme Court to throw it to W; he won by a sliver, 286, when re-elected in 2004. 306 a Trump blowout? I don't think so.

Let's not forget that Hillary won the popular vote by perhaps 2.5 million (they're still counting). Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000 by a much smaller margin. Before 2000, the last time the winner of the popular vote lost the election in the Electoral College was -- drum roll -- Benjamin Harrison, 1888. It hadn't happened in 112 years.

So those two anomalies gave us W. and Trump. Something had better be done about that.

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