07-24-2016, 03:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-24-2016, 03:33 PM by Anthony '58.)
I laugh equally at the far-lefties who are saying that Hillary will win by a landslide and at the far-righties who are saying (more loudly) that Trump will win by a landslide.
The red-blue divide makes such an outcome essentially mathematically impossible - at least if one defines a landslide as an election in which the losing candidate is "lurched;" that is, fails to win 135 electoral votes, which is half the 270 needed to win.
The last losing candidate to suffer this fate was Michael Dukakis in 1988 - and it ain't gonna happen this year.
The red-blue divide makes such an outcome essentially mathematically impossible - at least if one defines a landslide as an election in which the losing candidate is "lurched;" that is, fails to win 135 electoral votes, which is half the 270 needed to win.
The last losing candidate to suffer this fate was Michael Dukakis in 1988 - and it ain't gonna happen this year.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892