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Originally Posted by mineistaken
I can not respect your view because it is double standard.
If bigger electoral vote margin - you ignore separate states even if all of them are barely won.
If smaller electoral vote margin - you take into consideration separate states that were barely won.
It is one or another. Either just pure electoral numbers or both. Not one in one case, another in another.
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In this particular case, I don't consider it a landslide no matter how you count it. Want to keep actual vote count out of it? Cool. Winning by two states is not a landslide.
Want to factor in the actual votes? Fine. Winning by two states by a combined total of about 55K votes is not a landslide.
What he did was win. It was a close race, but in the end, he won. It just wasn't a landslide.
Had he lost Michigan and won 288 to 243 would you still consider that a landslide? What is your number? A person needs 50.1% of the EVS to win. Trump got 56.6% of the EVs. So where does the number fall. If 56.6% is a landslide is 55%? 53%?