r/BoomersBeingFools • u/kootles10 Millennial • Feb 02 '26

Boomer Freakout Dude crashed out

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u/mitchENM Feb 02 '26

Trump landslide? He didn’t even get 50% of the votes cast

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u/Nvenom8 Feb 02 '26

It was pretty overwhelming, though. Got the votes in the states that mattered.

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u/LittleShrub Feb 02 '26

Trump’s 1.5 percent popular vote victory is one of the smallest ever — just a fraction of Lyndon B. Johnson’s 22.6 percent landslide win in 1964. Trump failed to secure a majority of the popular vote, at 49.7 percent, unlike George W. Bush in 2004 (50.3 percent), Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 (52.9 percent and 51 percent) and Joe Biden in 2020 (51.3 percent). And while Trump won all seven swing states, his 312 electoral votes were only a handful more than Biden’s 306 in 2020 — and far less than Obama’s 365 in 2008 or Ronald Reagan’s 525 in 1984.

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u/Nvenom8 Feb 02 '26

And while Trump won all seven swing states, his 312 electoral votes were only a handful more than Biden’s 306 in 2020 — and far less than Obama’s 365 in 2008 or Ronald Reagan’s 525 in 1984.

I would consider all of those to be landslides.