Nate Silver Just Schooled Kellyanne Conway For Saying Trump Won By “Landslide”
Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and current surrogate Kellyanne Conway took to Twitter today to celebrate Donald Trump’s “historic blowout” victory in the electoral college now that Michigan has been officially declared for Trump, ignoring the fact that Jill Stein is planning to file a recount any day now.
306. Landslide. Blowout. Historic. https://t.co/ObYZDo8cBq
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) November 28, 2016
However, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight brutally shut her down with his pesky liberal “facts” and “statistics:”
Actually way below average for a winner's total:
1984—525
1980—489
1988—426
1996—379
1992—370
2008—365
2012—332
*2016—306*
2004—286
2000—271 https://t.co/C9z8I9jPYZ— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 28, 2016
Trump won in the 44th biggest landslide out of the past 54 elections. Pretty epic. https://t.co/TFouy56v2A
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 28, 2016
The only two elections to receive less electoral college votes was Republican George W. Bush, who also lost the popular vote and was handed the victory by the Supreme Court in 2000. It just goes to show how truly close this election was – and how large a proportion of the American people rejected his heinous brand of misogyny and racism. The issue of Trump’s two million and counting deficit in the popular vote clearly bothers him on a personal level – so let’s do everything we can to remind him that he’s a loser with the American people.
