The ‘landslide' that wasn't: By traditional measures, Trump's win was neither unprecedented nor a landslide. In fact, he prevailed with one of the smallest popular vote margins since the 19th century and generated little of the coattails of a true landslide. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u... - ThreadSky

kylegriffin1.bsky.social • 105 days ago

The ‘landslide' that wasn't:

By traditional measures, Trump's win was neither unprecedented nor a landslide.

In fact, he prevailed with one of the smallest popular vote margins since the 19th century and generated little of the coattails of a true landslide.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/us/politics/trump-election-landslide.html

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wisdomvoices.bsky.social•105 days ago

Add the BBC to the list of non-landslide listers. I just love the line most voters picked someone else: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5w9w160xdo

factpac.org•105 days ago

yep

mreddie8976.bsky.social•105 days ago

“Mr. 49%” should be his new title

amp0523.bsky.social•105 days ago

And never mind that they manipulated the votes. They cheated. Plain and simple!

thebluephotog.bsky.social•105 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/thebluephotog.bsky.social/post/3lblr64efs22n

philtom.bsky.social•105 days ago

So their allowed recounts and mulgies of court cases, but dems don’t go there???? Democrats are SO timid they deserve to lose… grow a pair will you????

agaland2dogs.bsky.social•105 days ago

Amazeballs.

punctilious.bsky.social•105 days ago

Did he win though? Cyber security experts are saying the election was hacked and calling for Harris to call for an immediate recount by hand. Just might be what saves America.
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

cocom80.bsky.social•105 days ago

Isn’t CA still counting?

rowsbywf.bsky.social•105 days ago

Ah, but it's all in how you sell it...

rkoziol.bsky.social•103 days ago

📌

webrant.bsky.social•105 days ago

They will maintain that they have a mandate because that majoritarian masquerade is how fascism works to hand control only to concentrated capital.

https://bsky.app/profile/kylegriffin1.bsky.social/post/3lbmqbn5bn22r

maryamobgyn.bsky.social•105 days ago

I’d have taken this “non- landslide”win … just saying

bonniebluebell1.bsky.social•105 days ago

Nine swing states were targeted with bomb threats. 67 locations. 56 of which voted for Biden. Eight in the most populated locations in nine states. Poling places were closed and then reopened. How many people did this deter from voting even if their polling place was not shut down?

foxthemighty.bsky.social•105 days ago

It doesn't fucking matter. A rapist pedophile beat her. Who the fuck cares by how much

ironkenx.bsky.social•104 days ago

titaniumartnerd.bsky.social•105 days ago

It only matters in the sense that he’s claiming he has a “mandate” to do whatever TF he wants because he won so “bigly” so the entire population must want what’s he dishing out. But it’s not a mandate and a large numbers of us with active brain waves don’t want it.

foxthemighty.bsky.social•104 days ago

It doesn't matter either way. He's going to do what he wants if he can get away with it. And he will bc otherwise we wouldn't be in the spot we're in. It's a waste of energy to keep a tally on votes when it doesn't matter

veggieman801.bsky.social•105 days ago

Unfortunately, he won the popular vote. It doesn’t matter by what margin. Meaning there are more people that supported him than not in this country…. That’s fucking wild!

sholahoon.bsky.social•105 days ago

More like a mudslide

saltyshawn.bsky.social•105 days ago

He squeaked by.
This angers me - how closely we lost. F all you who didn’t vote, you have damned us all🤬

roddusi.bsky.social•105 days ago

Nearly 70% of eligible voters in this country either voted for someone other than Trump or didn’t vote at all; a majority of those who voted, did so for someone other than Trump. And, still, only about 20% to 25% of eligible voters are the diehard MAGA supporters of Mr. 31%. No mandate . . .

tjk74.bsky.social•105 days ago

writaobscura.bsky.social•105 days ago

They took the house and Senate too, they'll keep calling it a mandate and landslide because of that.

Democrats should be concentrating on a a Project 2028 to rebuild the govt.

cajunjoe.bsky.social•105 days ago

Criminal POS

ultraviolet1228.bsky.social•105 days ago

You said it!

ksayan.bsky.social•104 days ago

I sincerely hope to help create and contribute to a resistance so stolid, like an 800-year-old tree, that the trunk is too thick to fell and the roots too deep and vast to uproot. We have the numbers. Let's unite! 🙏

ellathon.bsky.social•105 days ago

He prevails in smallness

kevmanbuzz.bsky.social•105 days ago

Also, he beat 2 women but couldn’t beat the man.

lukedivers.bsky.social•105 days ago

Shouldn’t it be called “winning the plurality vote” if most Americans voted for someone else?

missmarciac.bsky.social•105 days ago

I’m tired of seeing the word “win” when we all know there ain’t no effin way this was legitimate

lakelife2869.bsky.social•105 days ago

This sounds like a huge cope for a party that lost the house, senate, and white house. Not to mention the popular vote

jenifromcali.bsky.social•105 days ago

Itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie barely enough to fill a dinghy.

isaco-1.bsky.social•105 days ago

It’s getting thinner by the day … he’s a felon and everyone is coming out of the ether ….

ironkenx.bsky.social•104 days ago

Asses kicked.

peacefulnana.bsky.social•105 days ago

Let me guess. He won by 11,780 votes.

gsdmama.bsky.social•105 days ago

Juuuuuuust enough to win.....🤔

hermioneishere.bsky.social•105 days ago

I guarantee if they did a recount or allowed the ballots rejected by red states to be counted, he wouldn’t have won the popular or electoral vote.

immigrant2blusky.bsky.social•105 days ago

Landslide/mandate logic: anything above a .01% differential, is rounded-up to 100%, which then automatically becomes a landslide/mandate.

bluephoenix718.bsky.social•105 days ago

True. And on top of that the election was hacked according to cyber expert Stephen Spoonamore! See his substack.👀

flapper51.bsky.social•104 days ago

The tragedy is that he won at all.

big-steppa.bsky.social•105 days ago

We want a recount

nenar.bsky.social•105 days ago

Wouldn't it be nice if this were the first thing he sees in the morning?

teriberi.bsky.social•104 days ago

Very suspicious how fast the ballots were counted.

cac5724.bsky.social•105 days ago

Less than half the popular vote and close race. Nothing pleased me more than seeing him dip below 50%

vanness2025.bsky.social•105 days ago

What of the seven swing states with split votes? NC Dem down ticket except for Pres. Did we get a recount in that state? Did we get a recount at all?

doglover.bsky.social•105 days ago

Wait — the NYT is publishing truth now?

cleanandserene.bsky.social•105 days ago

Which infuriates me further, knowing how many stayed home because they “didn’t really know” Harris. Absolutely tragic, the apathy we have in our population.

sv25.bsky.social•105 days ago

for some reason, more than Trump winning the Presidency, him winning the popular vote irks me more.

still cannot believe majority of Americans believed he is good for the country.

el-intrepido.bsky.social•105 days ago

When you’re in a cult “If you ain’t first; your last” 😂🤣

colettemalette.bsky.social•105 days ago

It was a Landside in the Harris camp! Maga cheated.

thendisnigh111349.bsky.social•105 days ago

Obama is the last POTUS to win in a landslide and Republicans did everything in their power to sabotage his agenda, so they're the last I'm willing to hear from about respecting a mandate.

tuttyblueskyly.bsky.social•105 days ago

Can we say cheating?

deedeberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

In know this should be comforting; I still cannot get over that he won at all. I’m trying to understand the country and my fellow Americans in light of his win and I’m mostly sick and disgusted. Bluesky voices help though- thx for sharing this.

justfairtruth.bsky.social•105 days ago

Musk spent $M to buy votes, and eventually to select the US President! The US constitution is needed to be improved to stop this from happening in the future, & esp. to have standards to stop a convicted felon & rapist & insurrectionist from being a qualified candidate for any US Gov positions!

v-walls.bsky.social•105 days ago

I agree and here’s some supporting info-
A current popular vote tracker. Trump did not get a resounding mandate… far from it!

screamhowl.bsky.social•105 days ago

Since he had a ‘negative’ popular vote margin in 2016 doesn’t he get to claim TWO of the worst popular vote margins in U.S. history?

vivianplee.bsky.social•105 days ago

Even that cardboard cut out of him is a lie. He's much more obese than that

sylvanbroom.bsky.social•104 days ago

He is the first GOP presidential candidate to win the popular vote since 2004. Why are we arguing over what does or does not constitute a mandate when we should be doing introspection and figuring out how to win back the voters we hemorrhaged?

sylvanbroom.bsky.social•104 days ago

GOP has the House, Senate, and Supreme Court. They will do what they please with the power they have until they no longer possess it. Why agonize over definitions? How Is this helpful?

spaceoddity.bsky.social•105 days ago

get his ass 😤

dyerfineart.bsky.social•105 days ago

The margin by which he won is slightly higher than the number of deaths that transpired during his first time in office.

jennyunc.bsky.social•105 days ago

One could say, “he won by a whisker.”

thinker9.bsky.social•104 days ago

It's not only in % margins. Even in # of votes he underperformed. Hillary Clinton's popular vote lead in '16 was 2.87 Million votes. Compare to Trump's current lead of 2.51 million.

susanromano.bsky.social•105 days ago

We knew! Media mafia all in on Project 2025

missrevo.bsky.social•105 days ago

Pretty sure they didn’t care if they had a landslide. They now control all three branches of government and that’s all they care about in order to install their fascism.

esandrof.bsky.social•105 days ago

And yet it feels like we have been pulverized into dust.

dave0953.bsky.social•105 days ago

True but Kyle you need to remember, the people that voted for Trump will never believe you. They won’t even know what you mean by the 19th century.

sorayozora.bsky.social•105 days ago

yeah, we know. one could practically feel the lie encroaching though.

itsattachment.bsky.social•105 days ago

Right, the thing about him is everything they say is an attempt to outdo someone else. He’s obviously still butthurt Biden beat him. And he didn’t get as many votes as Obama’s real mandate. The less attention he gets about these games he plays the better. It’s all about his ego.

sbh08mae.bsky.social•105 days ago

I’ll always believe 45 pulled off a coup with the help of Musk. I don't think it was a legitimate win but it is our reality.

makaleka.bsky.social•105 days ago

that was NOT a landslide......by any stretch of the imagination....and I'd bet it disappears after the mailin and absentee votes are counted.....too bad Kamala conceded

kippewa.bsky.social•105 days ago

It wasn’t a landslide, his ear wasn’t bullet-pierced, he isn’t a good businessman, he isn’t ruggedly tan, his hair isn’t blonde (anymore), he doesn’t hire the best people, he isn’t smarter than the generals, he didn’t “do more for the Blacks”, and on, and on, and on, and on. 😑

suesaysenough.bsky.social•105 days ago

Plus....Joe Biden still had more popular votes the last time than he had this time. Lol

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