Was 1992 a landslide?

[Gabu]

Generally speaking, I consider a landslide more in terms of its sustainability than its raw numbers.  A "landslide" to me, brings to mind the image of a truly unstoppable force that the other candidate is completely helpless to stop.  I therefore consider a landslide to be any election where you can induce a 7.5% swing to the second place candidate and not change the outcome of the election.

In the 20th century, that would be the following elections:

1904
1912
1920
1924
1932
1936
1964
1972
1984

The choice of 7.5% is, admittedly arbitrary, but it works pretty well in including anything I do consider a landslide and in weeding out anything I don't.  I tried 5%, but this let in too many (such as 1908, which didn't really feel like a landslide for me), and 10%, but this weeded out too many (such as 1984, which definitely was a landslide).

[Gabu]

Generally speaking, I consider a landslide more in terms of its sustainability than its raw numbers.  A "landslide" to me, brings to mind the image of a truly unstoppable force that the other candidate is completely helpless to stop.  I therefore consider a landslide to be any election where you can induce a 7.5% swing to the second place candidate and not change the outcome of the election.

In the 20th century, that would be the following elections:

1904
1912
1920
1924
1932
1936
1964
1972
1984

The choice of 7.5% is, admittedly arbitrary, but it works pretty well in including anything I do consider a landslide and in weeding out anything I don't.  I tried 5%, but this let in too many (such as 1908, which didn't really feel like a landslide for me), and 10%, but this weeded out too many (such as 1984, which definitely was a landslide).

That looks like an excellent definition to me. In other words, it'd be a 15% margin?

Generally speaking that would be case, but the popular vote is largely actually irrelevant.  What matters in the above definition is the percentages in the states won by the victor - it's a landslide if the victor hangs on to enough states to win even after 7.5% is transferred from the winner to the loser.

[Gabu]

I just can't see a popular vote total in the low 40s percent being a landslide.

Think about if Perot wasn't in the race.

A lot of Perot's votes would have gone to Bush.