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To: Emperor Palpatine

A landslide? Surely you jest!


17 posted on 08/09/2012 10:03:37 AM PDT by karnage
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To: karnage
It was not a jest-

Popular votes

Lyndon Johnson's 61.1% to Barry Goldwater's 38.5% in the 1964 presidential election

Franklin D. Roosevelt's 60.8% to Alf Landon's 36.5% in the 1936 presidential election

Richard Nixon's 60.7% to George McGovern's 37.5% in the 1972 presidential election

Warren Harding's 60.3% to James M. Cox's 34.1% in the 1920 presidential election

Ronald Reagan's 58.8% to Walter Mondale's 40.6% in the 1984 presidential election

Theodore Roosevelt's 56.4% to Alton B. Parker's 37.6% in the 1904 presidential election

Electoral votes

James Monroe's 231 electoral votes to John Quincy Adams's 1 electoral vote in 1820. (99.2% margin)

Franklin D. Roosevelt's 523 electoral votes to Alf Landon's 8 electoral votes in 1936. (97% margin)

Ronald Reagan's 525 electoral votes to Walter Mondale's 13 electoral votes in 1984. (95.2% margin)

Richard Nixon's 520 electoral votes to George McGovern's 17 electoral votes and John Hospers's 1 in 1972. (93.3% margin)

29 posted on 08/09/2012 10:39:43 AM PDT by matthew fuller (They'll have to pry my gun, my bible, and my chikin from my cold dead fingers.)
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