{"id":132129,"date":"2016-11-29T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/there-are-landslides-and-then-there-are-well-actual-landslides.html"},"modified":"2016-12-15T22:09:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T05:09:03","slug":"there-are-landslides-and-then-there-are-well-actual-landslides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/there-are-landslides-and-then-there-are-well-actual-landslides.html","title":{"rendered":"There are &quot;landslides&quot; and then there are, well, actual landslides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, in sum, not only has Trump lost the popular vote by over 2 milllion, but his electoral margin (including just-concluded Michigan) means he has the 10th highest of the 14 presidential elections of the 538 EV era.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s Trump&#39;s prerogative to (continue, vocally) calling his win a &quot;landslide&quot; of &quot;historic proportions,&quot; but, like a number of his real estate pitches, the reality is something far less than that. He won, but the more he keeps touting the magnitude of his win, the more it draws attention to its lack of magnitude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/team-trump-relies-bizarre-definition-landslide'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ByuCaXcsQizZfbS7J7B1WqfyRA8IW2fPHQ4bQpLCjV8Zj_3WcZ7bPl__jOXAAe8ztZeSkE6m14wS41Y6d2T13CurfnFZP1ItVAtLExeyZO90-LQntwnrwewMuevL6MoJybEKMuaD23YPJUdzK96gx3E15q71rfDXAOgfWhphIgz0TSnyz0K0IP2GbmoM=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/team-trump-relies-bizarre-definition-landslide'>Team Trump relies on a bizarre definition of &#8216;landslide&#8217;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTeam Trump wants you to see his victory as a historic &#8220;blowout&#8221; and &#8220;landslide.&#8221; The evidence to the contrary is overwhelming.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/T2hoat43pd4'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, in sum, not only has Trump lost the popular vote by over 2 milllion, but his electoral margin (including just-concluded Michigan) means he has the 10th highest of the 14 presidential elections of the 538 EV era. It&#39;s Trump&#39;s prerogative to (continue, vocally) calling his win a &quot;landslide&quot; of &quot;historic proportions,&quot; but, like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/there-are-landslides-and-then-there-are-well-actual-landslides.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There are &quot;landslides&quot; and then there are, well, actual landslides&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11244,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/13\/by_failing_to_plan.html","url_meta":{"origin":132129,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;By failing to plan &#8230;&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 13-Oct-07 10:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"So in building the monumental Three Gorges dam, the Chinese government has already displaced hundreds of thousands of people from their old communities because they were to be flooded.\u00a0 Now...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128292,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/best-pre-primary-season-money-can-buy.html","url_meta":{"origin":132129,"position":1},"title":"Best pre-primary season money can buy","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Oct-15 5:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember, candidates are already debating -- and dropping out -- long before the first primary or caucus vote by any US citizens. 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