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• n  an overwhelming electoral victory
  Roosevelt defeated Hoover in a landslide
• n  a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff

• The Republican victory that swept the presidency and squeaked through the Congress took on landslide dimensions again among the state governors.
• Election Day brought a landslide in Puerto Rico too.
• When historians look back at the 2008 presidential landslide, they won't focus on the fact that Barack Obama soon to be our 44th President and our first African-American .

• landslip

News & Articles

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• Law School Dean To Lead Minn. Landslide Inquiry
  St. Paul has hired a law school dean to lead an investigation into last month's landslide that killed two students on a field trip to a park. Mayor Chris Coleman on Friday announced the hiring of Donald M. Lewis.
  June 21, 2013 - CBS Minnesota
• St. Paul hires law school dean to probe fatal Lilydale park landslide
  The city of St. Paul is hiring an attorney to lead an independent investigation into a landslide at Lilydale Regional Park that killed two boys last month.
  June 21, 2013 - Pioneer Press
• Law school dean to lead landslide inquiry
  St. Paul has hired a law school dean to lead an investigation into last month’s landslide that killed two students on a field trip to a park.
  June 21, 2013 - Finance and Commerce

Quotes

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• Ralph Nader in Melbourne Herald Sun
  If the Democrats can't landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, emerge in a different form,Mr Nader said. "Bush took the election from Gore. They (Democrats) ought to go after the thieves of 2000, not...
• Tim Kaine in CBS News
  The president, who won the White House in a landslide, now recognizes that his re-election hangs in the balance as an economy flails, joblessness remains high and Republican attacks on him deal political blows,Kaine wrote.
• John McCain in International Herald Tribune
  Noting he outpolled rivals in two tiny northern hamlets that voted before the rest of the state, McCain cracked: "It has all the earmarks of a landslide, with the Dixville Notch vote."