Landslide? WTF?!?!

[ZirconBlue]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1984

58.8 - 40.6

That was an incumbent victory, non-incumbent victors usually score lower.

Non-incumbent victories since 1932:

2000 Gore - Bush 0.5
1992 Clinton - Bush 6.4
1988 Dukakis - Bush 7.8
1980 Carter - Reagan 9.7
1976 Carter - Ford 2.1
1968 Humphrey - Nixon 0.7
1960 Kennedy - Nixon 0.2
1952 Stevenson - Eisenhower 10.9
1932 Roosevelt - Hoover 17.7

I guess I never realized how close, in terms of popular vote, most US elections have been for the last 50 years.

 

[BenBurch]

electoral system magnifies the lead.