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AP FACT CHECK: No 'landslide' election win for Trump
The Associated Press ^ | Dec. 12, 2016 | JIM DRINKARD

Posted on 12/12/2016 10:36:58 AM PST by mdittmar

WASHINGTON (AP) — In claiming that he scored "a massive landslide victory" in last month's presidential election, Donald Trump turned history upside down.

In fact, his winning margin in the Electoral College is on the other end of the historical spectrum, far closer to the narrowest win in history than to the widest.

Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Trump claimed that "We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College." Hillary Clinton, he said, is "down to a very low number." He added that Democrats "suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country."

The final Electoral College margin was Trump 306, Clinton 232, for a winning percentage of just under 57 percent. That ranks this year's outcome as the 13th-closest of the 58 presidential elections in U.S. history, according to a tally by Claremont McKenna College political scientist John Pitney.

(Excerpt) Read more at elections.ap.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electoralcollege; fakenews; landslide; realpropaganda; trump; trump2016; trumptransition
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To: mdittmar
"We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College." - Not accurate.

Democrats "suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country." - Accurate

21 posted on 12/12/2016 10:42:56 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: mdittmar
"Fact checking" subjective rhetorical descriptions?

Ok, it could be argued that it was a "landslide" in the sense that it abruptly changed the landscape. The media went from people insisting it was un-American to challenge the results of American elections to making challenging to the results of an election as a full time job for instance.

22 posted on 12/12/2016 10:43:05 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: mdittmar

Oh goody, an AP Fake Check.

Pray America woke


23 posted on 12/12/2016 10:43:22 AM PST by bray (The Silent Majority ROARED)
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To: Paladin2

Exactly.


24 posted on 12/12/2016 10:43:27 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: mdittmar

B S ! 300 electoral votes has been considered A LANDSLIDE for decades!!!!! Trump has OVER 300 at 306 E.V’s. That makes it a landslide.


25 posted on 12/12/2016 10:43:44 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: mdittmar

AP you lie! Fakenews


26 posted on 12/12/2016 10:44:07 AM PST by ColdOne (( I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Not tired of winning.)
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To: mdittmar

Toss out illegal votes and he takes Nevada, New Hampshire and Virginia at a minimum.


27 posted on 12/12/2016 10:45:09 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: mdittmar

I know your question, “What would we do without the AP?” is rhetorical, but my answer would be, “I’d like to find out.”

As to their point, however, I’d consider a win of any magnitude a landslide of sorts when one considers that virtually every Democrat and Republican pundit, along with almost every swingin’ Richard or Rita in the media, predicted a landslide win for What’s-her-Name.


28 posted on 12/12/2016 10:46:29 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Well the NYT and ABC reported Hillary was up 12% with less than 2 weeks to go. MSM were reporting Hillary a landslide winner. Poops Trump won. So yes it was a landslide for Trump.


29 posted on 12/12/2016 10:48:33 AM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex)
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To: mdittmar

These libtards refuse to accept Trump’s election. This is to enable them to walk around for the next 4 years saying that Trump stole the election.


30 posted on 12/12/2016 10:49:40 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: mdittmar

If Hillary had gotten 306, her new name in the MSM would be Hillary Landslide Clinton.


31 posted on 12/12/2016 10:50:08 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: mdittmar

AP=subversive fake news


32 posted on 12/12/2016 10:50:29 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Paladin2

“306 is not a landslide by historical standards. It’s darn good though. Way more than close.”

It doesn’t matter as much as governing like you have a mandate. One of my favorite things about Trump is he could have won by 1 ev and would call it a landslide and stick to his arguments... Do not dismiss that this is just as much as de-legitimizing his forthcoming administration as it is about stopping the bleeding on their side. Trump could very well destroy their party for decades if he does a good job for everyone and sells it as such. They need to give their people a reason to never like him. It will hard to be a blue collar working stiff in the midwest and not vote for Trump in 4 years if he has his way.


33 posted on 12/12/2016 10:50:40 AM PST by RightInTheMain
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To: mdittmar

Okay, we can’t “kill the liberals.” And we can’t eat them. Both acts are illegal. So, then…what to do about their constant, raging, brutal violence and threats?

How do we counter the vicious, never-ending Fake News attacks of their world-wide propaganda machine?”

We laugh at them.

Ridicule them.

Mock them.

Challenge them, call them liars, call them names of shame and blame.

But don’t—EVER—for one thin moment or instance, EVER believe them.

Take them seriously, as you would any lethal threat. Yes.

But laugh in their faces. And ignore them thereafter—ANYthing they say, print, or screen. Minimize and kick to the curb, their feverish, panicky lies, their perverted Fake News, and their false, self-destructive, phony world of an ash-filled, burning Nemesis.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3503885/posts


34 posted on 12/12/2016 10:51:15 AM PST by Grampa Dave (We've been lied to so many times by the MSM! We are livoinging in a world that doesn't exist!)
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To: mdittmar

Among them is Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1936 win over Alf Landon. Roosevelt won 523 electoral votes to Landon’s eight, and 61 percent of the popular vote to his opponent’s 37 percent. In 1984, Ronald Reagan won 525 electoral votes to Walter Mondale’s 13, capturing 59 percent of the popular vote.

Neither of President Barack Obama’s victories, in 2008 or 2012, are considered to be landslides.


35 posted on 12/12/2016 10:52:02 AM PST by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (------->VMFA 235 '69-'72 KMCAS <------- "Death Angels")
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To: RightInTheMain

Agree. Tempest in a Tea/Crock/Ganga Pot.


36 posted on 12/12/2016 10:53:00 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: mdittmar; All

The system is rigged and not constitutionally compliant imo. So we’ll never know how legal voters actually voted.


37 posted on 12/12/2016 10:53:43 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: mdittmar

Looks like a landslide to me.

38 posted on 12/12/2016 10:54:26 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: mdittmar

Hmmmm...

70 electoral votes is just a near tie miss huh?

AP: They’re so cute trying to act like they are still relevant.


39 posted on 12/12/2016 10:54:55 AM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: ManHunter
“I’d like to find out.”

LOL, may Santa bring your gift.

40 posted on 12/12/2016 10:55:24 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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