We have ourselves a genuine landslide! We need a little historical perspective. The margin between Reagan and Carter in 1980 was a 9.7 percent spread (50.7 to 41), roughly the same as last night's spread in Pennsylvania, which I hear over and over was a "mere" 9.4 percent. We called it a landslide then, and we should call it a landslide now. We Democrats, that is, we on the losing side that year, called it a landslide, because it was a landslide, and guess what, my fellow Democrats who support Barack Obama, you on the losing side, it is this year still a landslide.
But the analogy goes even further. This diary is inspired by a comment that someone made that the appearance of landslide was an effect of the disparity between Reagan and Carter in the electoral college.
If you want to use the electoral college as a measure, Reagan won 44 states and Carter won 7 (including the District of Columbia), that is, Reagan won 86.3 percent of the electoral college entities, and Carter won 13.7. The only comparable comparison in the primary is counties. Pennsylvania has 67 counties. It appears that Hillary won 62 of them, and Obama won five of them, that is, Hillary won 92.5 percent of Pennsylvania counties, and Obama won 7.5.
A landslide is a landslide is a landslide.
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