How many electoral votes would be considered a landslide?

[Poiuyt]

??

[maxsolomon]

1. 271,

* set the precedent for treating a stolen victory as a mandate.

[yourguide]

6. +1

[palintology]

2. 350

[Perky]

7. agreed it is 350

[Alter Ego]

3. 330+.

That's when I'll turn it off and go get tanked.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. 271 for a Republican. Infinity for a Democrat.

[cloudythescribbler]

14. Excellent point, and all too true -- but it's up to US to expose and oppose that

[DavidDvorkin]

17. You're right. In every way, we have be much louder than in the past.

We have to make our points loudly and without letup.

[Essene]

5. once it breaks 300ish... the media wont be able to control themselves.

anything that isn't determined by 1-2 swing states will be spun as a landslide, esp if the popular vote is strong.

[damonm]

8. Depending on how you define "landslide"

I choose to define it as 60% or greater of the total vote (I've heard 55%, but I'm deliberately going over that)
THUS:
538EV available
538x0.6=323 (rounded up from 322.8)

So, call it 323EV for an Electoral College landslide.

[Robbins]

9. 300

When Obama wins 300 Electoral Votes It Is a landslide.And be prepared to point out Bush never got that high not even In his so called mandate In 2004.

[Essene]

15. exactly. in our current time... 300+ will be taken as a landslide (except at fox)

once it hits 300, the L-word will be let loose... and everybody above that will seem like gravy.

[WeDidIt]

10. A True Landslide would be 375 or more.

70%

[RichardRay]

11. 370 according to Nate Silver at 538

That seems to be the traditional figure, as far as I can tell.

[crankychatter]

12. the GOP counted states, lost the popular vote and STILL declared a "Mandate"

I say, popular vote PLUS EV?

landslide

[cloudythescribbler]

13. If Obama is able to EQUAL OR EXCEED both Reagan's POPULAR vote margin in 80 & Bush's in 88 ...

he will then almost certainly have gotten more than 50% and have an undeniable mandate. The distraught Repukes will then of course follow the 271 is a mandate for Repukes and infinity not enough for Democrats approach, but I have NO doubt that in such a situation both the POPULAR vote and the ELECTORAL will be a mandate for all but die-hard RW partisans

[Desertrose]

16. If you are a repub & a dem wins..there is no such thing

But if a repub wins by 270+1...its a LANDSLIDE!:sarcasm:


We & Obama are gonna have a landslide...I feel it. :)



Gonna be fun to watch :popcorn:

[nyccitizen]

18. To be fair, it only takes a few points in the PV to win the EC overwhelmingly. nt