Then he won the election in the face of an overwhelming electoral landslide for Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democrat entering his second of four election victories as president.
Later he was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat in the overwhelming Democratic landslide of 1964.
Duncan defeated Greene in an overwhelming landslide, as expected, winning another term in Congress.
President Bush won with only 51 percent of the vote, not by some overwhelming landslide.
Hoover won the presidency in an overwhelming national landslide with 58% of the popular vote.
The candidate, in fact, was born in 1935 and played no known role in the overwhelming Democratic landslide of the following year.
Ultimately, Voinovich capitalized on his massive popularity with Ohio and won re-election in an overwhelming landslide, crushing Burch and winning over 70% of the vote.
Even with such an overwhelming landslide, though, pushing change will probably remain a struggle.
A Vermont convention voted by an overwhelming landslide in favor of a petition for statehood on January 6, 1791.
But the fact that our electoral system worked well enough to register an overwhelming Democratic landslide doesn't mean that things are O.K.