Monday, August 15, 2011
If Obama only got 52.6% of the votes of the people, why is it called a landslide?
We don't hold a national election - we actually hold 51 separate state elections, each state plus DC containing a number of electoral votes depending on population. It doesn't matter how many popular votes a candidate wins, as Al Gore found out in 2000, it matters where the candidates wins them. Republicans traditionally do well in the south and mountain west, both areas have smaller populations than the north east and west coast which almost always go democratic. Obama managed to flip several republican states this year like Virginia and Indiana which helped put him over the top.
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