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Originally Posted by nononsenseguy
Proving their ignorance about our system. "But ...but ...she won the popular vote!" Remind them, every time you hear this, that we are 50 sovereign states, and Trump won (the popular vote) in more states than Hillary did.
It was a colossal landslide!
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And there is that word again, 'landslide'. You are misusing it badly.
Landslide is commonly understood to mean an unusually large win. 306 was 57% of the vote-a win, but not one that was unusually large. When Reagan took 525, THAT was a landslide. When Bush took 426, THAT was a landslide. Clinton in 1996 (379) was probably close, but that's stretching it.
306 was less of a landslide and more of a convincing win, and his party winning both the House and the Senate sets him up to do some really interesting things, but don't for a second think it can't get screwed up and reversed.
Pride goes before a fall. But I hope in this case, pride goes before a really successful Presidency and getting control of our national deficit, and eventually debt, before it eats us alive.
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