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.
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I see they’re letting Drinkards write for them now. Did they give him a breathalyzer test?
More FAKE NEWS
I suppose it’s so “narrow,” we should just reverse it and coronate Hillary as Queen.
Whether 2 seconds or one hundredth of a second faster than the number 2 runner, the winner is still the winner and the medal goes to him. STFU AP
I remember Reagan’s campaign manager once said any victory where one candidate wins over 300 electoral votes is a landslide.
Well, Trump won 306.
until he’s sworn in, it’s going to be touch and go.
Now switch the number around, and see if this AP jack@ss would have even bothered with such a story.
So, by this metric, was John F Kennedy an illegitimate president?
The AP got it backward...... hillary had a landside loss
Spinning.... Not just for democrats anymore.
306 is not a landslide by historical standards. It’s darn good though. Way more than close.
AP stands for A$$ Ph*ckers.
AP - Arbiter of facts?
That is a darn safe margin. Whatever.
It was definitely a landslide compared to expectations.
Throw out all the FAKE votes.
It was a landslide. He won more states than Obama did in 2008, and they called that a landslide victory. Not to mention all the state races that went Republican.
AP = Absolute Propaganda
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