Significant people's (not celebrities) deaths

I’m not sure of the year but I think it was against Reagan in the 80’s.

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  1. Where’s the beef?

525-13, the biggest electoral college landslide in history. Reagan won 49 states, Mondale only carried his home state of Minnesota and the District.

To illustrate how lopsided that race was, here it is broken out by congressional district.

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Les McKeown of the Bay City Rollers

Did you have the tartan trousers.

bye bye baby

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We were too poor

Second biggest. Franklin Roosevelt beat Alf Landon 523 to 8 in the electoral college in 1936.

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Nobody has ever won 525 votes before or since. 49 state wins have only been achieved twice (1972 & 1984) and there were only 48 member states of the union in 1936.

It is the largest electoral college vote in history.

But not the biggest landslide as @ChairmanDan correctly pointed out.

Roosevelt won by 515 in 1936.

Reagan won by 512 in 1984.

1936 is the bigger landslide.

Only if you define landslide as margin of victory as opposed to votes gained.

I think that’s how most people would define landslide

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Ah no RIP Humpty Hump.

“Hey yo fat girl, c’mere–are ya ticklish?
Yeah, I called ya fat; look at me, I’m skinny
It never stopped me from getting busy
I’m a freak, I like the girls with the boom
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom”

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He was quite the wordsmith.

Never heard of him but RIP Humpty.

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Michael Collins, crew member of Apollo 11, has slipped the surly bonds for the final time.

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Michael Collins * who drove the craft on the alleged moon landing in 1969 has flown skywards again, this time to make a landing. He was 90.

  • Not to be confused with the Independent TD from Cork who appears to be thriving.

The astronaut Michael Collins was also a west Cork man so that clarification is important.

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