[gdulli]

The 2000 presidential election really changed things. The winner of the popular vote at the national level lost the election, and of course there was the whole Florida recount thing. 2004 was also very close and reinforced this. Since then a 10-15 point win seems like a bigger deal than it used to and the threshold for using "landslide" is lower.

Hillary won 3 of 5 states last night by 10+ points and the biggest state by 30+ points. Overall that might not have been called a landslide 20 years ago but the definition is looser now.

[toyg]

Yeah, since 2000 it became clear the US electoral process is f*ed up (which makes the whole "democracy" grandstanding very shallow). And I thought the UK system was bad...

[pmarreck]

At least we don't have a monarchy. ;)