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Yeah, it was a landslide in terms of Congressional seats, but I think the actual popular vote was something like 52% to 46% - how big is that margin, by historical US general election standards? That's not rhetorical, I actually have no idea.
I thought it was 52-47?
Collected some figures to prove to a mate of mine that it wasn't the landslide (in popular votes) it should have been:
The history of ‘landslide victories’:
61.1%—Lyndon Johnson, 1964
60.8%—Franklin Roosevelt 1936
60.7%—Richard Nixon, 1972
60.3%—Warren Harding, 1920
58.5%—Ronald Reagan, 1984
58.2%—Herbert Hoover, 1928
57.4%—Franklin Roosevelt, 1932
57.4%—Dwight Eisenhower 1956
56.4%—Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
56.0%—Andrew Jackson, 1828
In the last 100 years, the only presidents to win by a smaller margin than Obama are Bush II (twice), Carter, Kennedy and Wilson (1916) and Truman. So his victory ranks 19th out of 26 elections since 1908.
The dems have a chance now to prevent some of the worst excesses of Republican fraud. Obama should start by repealing the 'help America Vote' act. I imagine he's gonna need as many votes as he can get in 2012...