Albert3105
Since: Jun, 2013
Sep 16th 2021 at 4:07:37 PM
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We have the "no dominant-party landslides unless the margin is egregiously larger than normal" rule. Note that Newsom himself got elected in 2018 with a 24% margin, and Brown re-elected before him with a 20% margin.
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jharrison3051
Since: Feb, 2017
Mar 27th 2017 at 8:41:28 PM
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I deleted a rather lengthy addition about the 2016 Trump vs Clinton election as a landslide since there's really no way to shoehorn it in here as one. The popular vote margin was one of the narrowest
, and a 2% Clinton win, while the electoral vote was a 57%-43% Trump win, it actually ranks fairly low among electoral college wins.
The second-ever recall election for a California governor was just called as I am writing this and the state's governor, Gavin Newsom, will remain in office by a large margin. However, given that California is, as of 2021, an approximately 2:1 Democratic leaning state (Biden won by 29% in the 2020 election), I think the only way the 2021 recall election can be added to this subpage is if the margin of victory is much larger than that, which seems to unlikely exceed that, so I don't think it should be added. Especially since compared to the 2003 recall the state is now significantly bluer than it was back then.
Keep in mind the reason the 2003 recall is currently an example is because the then-Democratic governor at the time was recalled by an over 10 point margin in an otherwise blue state..
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