When did we start referring to elections as "landslides"? - By Brian Palmer - Slate Magazine

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
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> http://www.slate.com/id/2273511/

I covered some of the same ground (Fremont 1856, Greeley 1872) in a
Word Routes column in 2008:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1600/

--bgz

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