Oh, by the way -- this how two of the worst defeats for incumbent Presidents went
1932:
![[Image: pe1932.png]](https://uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/GENERAL/pe1932.png)
Hoover won only six states, and it is clear why he lost so badly.
1980:
![[Image: pe1980.png]](https://uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/GENERAL/pe1980.png)
Six states and Dee Cee for Carter. Stagflation and some diplomatic disasters?
The next Presidential election following those losses were two of the three biggest blow-out landslides ever.
Trump is not going to lose a 45-state landslide, but he projects to lose at least as badly as the elder Bush in 1992.
1932:
Hoover won only six states, and it is clear why he lost so badly.
1980:
Six states and Dee Cee for Carter. Stagflation and some diplomatic disasters?
The next Presidential election following those losses were two of the three biggest blow-out landslides ever.
Trump is not going to lose a 45-state landslide, but he projects to lose at least as badly as the elder Bush in 1992.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.