52%-48% isn’t exactly “overwhelming”.
But to a democRAT, liberal, socialist, leftie RAT bastard, media -- it is overwhelming, as long as they are the 52%. In fact it becomes stupendous, landslide, unassailable mandate when they are the 52%.
Hell, when Al Franken (D-MN) went up by 12 votes (eventually to 223) in the contested 2008 senate race against incumbant Norm Coleman (R-MN) out of 1.5M votes or something like that, he & the demoRATs & Mpls Star-Tribune & St Paul Pioneer Press, etc., instantly declared him to be the mandated unequivocable winner.
However whenever 52% represent a conservative, Christian, patriotic victory, then all of sudden the liberal democRAT hacks & their propoganda arm (mainstream liberal media) portray a 52% - 48% victory as underwhelming and not significant at all.
If 52% of California vote to protect traditional marriage, that’s overwhelming. They are one of the farthest left states, and it wasn’t close. That means 65-35 in most states.