Indeed, the win, while decisive, was not by a landslide margin.
It is impossible to say how much of the Barking miracle can be explained by the efforts of the forces ranged against the BNP, and how much of the wound was self-inflicted, but after a shaky start at the Goresbrook leisure centre – before postal votes confirmed the landslide – the outcome was certainly decisive.
But don't look for French jackboots to pound Parisian gutters just yet; pollsters' projections suggested middle-of-the-road voters were simply voicing irritation rather than mania, and citizens liberal, Socialist and centrist as well as conservative are expected to unite behind moderate-conservative Chirac, giving the incumbent a landslide second term in the decisive May 5 vote.
Arizona is something of the opposite of New Mexico – a state Mr. Obama could win this year, but probably only in a landslide where it does not provide the decisive electoral votes.
Cassidy's victory was not the landslide some had predicted but it was nonetheless decisive.
The 1997 result, when a sunny day produced a low turnout and Labour landslide, suggests that the weather's impact is less than decisive.
But the real anxiety must be that the NLD may be cheated of decisive victory by this Islamophobic fantasy, or, even if it gets the landslide it expects, will have to cope after the election with its toxic legacy.
Obama wound up winning nearly 53 percent of the popular vote a decisive margin, but no landslide yet also captured not only all of those states that had gone for John Kerry in 2004 but also a number of historically Republican states won by Bush in the 2000 and 2004 elections, including Colorado, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, and Virginia.
They played a large part both in the landslide victory in 2005 of Junichiro Koizumi, a former prime minister, and the LDP's upper-house defeat two years later.Their opinions fluctuate wildly, but they can be decisive.
