They Don't Make Landslides Like They Used To

[Tuur]

CNN is calling Trump's win in the Iowa Republican Caucasus a landslide:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/politics/trump-iowa-victory-analysis/index.html

What was Trump's percentage of the vote? 51.0 %. CNN calls this a landslide?

 

[iluvatar5150]

CNN is calling Trump's win in the Iowa Republican Caucasus a landslide:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/politics/trump-iowa-victory-analysis/index.html

What was Trump's percentage of the vote? 51.0 %. CNN calls this a landslide?

He got more than the rest of the candidates combined and 2.4x as many as the #2. Is that not a landslide?

 

[RocksInMyHead]

CNN is calling Trump's win in the Iowa Republican Caucasus a landslide:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/politics/trump-iowa-victory-analysis/index.html

What was Trump's percentage of the vote? 51.0 %. CNN calls this a landslide?

Calling 51% a landslide is silly in a two-horse race. This wasn't a two-horse race though.

 

[JustOneWay]

CNN is calling Trump's win in the Iowa Republican Caucasus a landslide:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/politics/trump-iowa-victory-analysis/index.html

What was Trump's percentage of the vote? 51.0 %. CNN calls this a landslide?

Why does it matter? Is it a slow news day?

"A landslide victory is an election result in which the victorious candidate or party wins by an overwhelming margin. The term became popular in the 1800s to describe a victory in which the opposition is "buried", similar to the way in which a geological landslide buries whatever is in its path."

Landslide victory - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[RocksInMyHead]

Also, he's apparently the first person ever to get more than 50% of the vote at the Iowa Republican caucus (non-incumbent, I'm assuming).

 

[NxNW]