[CommieBobDole]

I don't think it was as lopsided as you think - Dole got 40.7% of the popular vote compared to Clinton's 49.7%, and he flipped five states in the electoral college.

Even though the results were never really in doubt, that's not too bad of a showing against an incumbent president.

[sverhagen]

With the two parties' loyal voters locked in already, and these races pretty much being about the swing voters in the middle, this sounds like a landslide, in American politics.

[tharne]

It would be a landslide by today's standards, but those kinds of margins were pretty common in the 80's and 90's. You had a lot more swing voters and people who would split their tickets so you had bigger margins while also having less certainly about the outcome prior to the actual vote. People forget that in the 80's and 90's a democrat could win West Virginia and Kentucky and a republican could win places like California and New York.

[bradleyjg]

Even back then, that was a very healthy margin of victory. Reagan beat Carter by not much more than that.