Inauguration being moved inside

[wtg]

@Rontuner said in Inauguration being moved inside:

I think I will focus on all things MLK on Monday...

That's a great idea.

[Daniel]

It was a landslide. Look at the Electoral College vote totals. It's a fact.

It's tomorrow. I stand corrected. Today was a speech in front of the capitol building.

[wtg]

I just provided the numbers regarding the popular vote.

[Daniel]

No, wtg. It was a landslide. That's what it means. It refers to Electoral College vote counts.

[wtg]

Once again, I respectfully exit from this particular discussion.

[Daniel]

No, it's not my definition. It's political science.

I don't see the need for being melodramatic.

[wtg]

No melodrama. Just being polite. And clearly I've changed my mind about the discussion,

Trump got 58% of the electoral college.

I looked up "landslide victory" and there were any number of articles, fact checkers, articles from poli sci departments at universities. By none of their definitions that I saw was Trump's electoral victory a landslide.

Here's one:

Again, there is no legal or constitutional definition of a landslide in a presidential election. But political journalists have offered their own suggested guidelines for determining a landslide victory over the years. Historically, news outlets have used the phrase "Electoral College landslide" when the winning candidate secures at least 375, or 70%, of the electoral votes.5 6

https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-a-landslide-election-3367585

More in-depth discussion on the Trump margin of victory from a bunch of perspectives:

https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/nov/22/how-big-was-donald-trumps-victory-8-charts-provide/

[Daniel]

Fair enough.

[wtg]

[Rontuner]

And that folks, is a microcosm of what's going on in our world. Misinformation repeated through YouTube and so many of other sites gets people to believe and repeat things that are easy enough to research and correct, but by the time the fact checking happens, the damage is already done.

Just ran into this the other day when out for a happy hour and someone was repeating about the Oregon firetrucks getting turned back from helping fight the California fires. Looked it up later and sure enough, false.