This was not a landslide

It’s not a landslide when the loser gets 226 electoral votes, and you lose a bunch of winnable Senate races, and have a House majority of only five seats or so. It’s not a landslide when you get 50.1% of the vote.

!964 was a landslide. Johnson won 61% of the vote. !972 was a landslide, with Nixon also getting close to 61%. !984 was a landslide, when Mondale won one state, his native Minnesota.

In all three of these cases, it was a referendum on an incumbent. It could happen in 2028, with the Republican running on the success of Trump’s presidency.

But 2024 was not a landslide.

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