Nate Silver thinks it's inaccurate to describe Donald Trump's electoral-college victory as a landslide. The Oxford American Dictionary and Language Guide (1999) defines "landslide" as "an overwhelming majority for one side in an election." Trump received 56.8% of the 538 electoral votes, compared to 43.1% for Hillary Clinton. That's a gap of 13.7%. Is it overwhelming? I don't know. It's impressive, at the very least. I mean, it could have been 270 to 268, or 50.1% to 49.8%. What I find odd is Silver's resort to comparisons with other presidential elections. There is nothing in the concept of a landslide that prevents every election from being a landslide, so why would the fact that Trump's victory ranks 44th of 54 elections have any bearing on whether his victory is a landslide? Silver is grasping at straws. By the way, what was Silver's prediction? Did he foresee the Trump victory? No. Why anyone would pay attention to this dolt is beyond me.
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