Top U.S. Presidential Landslide Elections

Popular votes

  • Lyndon Johnson’s 61.1% to Barry Goldwater’s 38.5% in the 1964 presidential election
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 60.8% to Alf Landon’s 36.5% in the 1936 presidential election
  • Richard Nixon’s 60.7% to George McGovern’s 37.5% in the 1972 presidential election
  • Warren Harding’s 60.3% to James M. Cox’s 34.1% in the 1920 presidential election
  • Ronald Reagan’s 58.8% to Walter Mondale’s 40.6% in the 1984 presidential election
  • Theodore Roosevelt’s 56.4% to Alton B. Parker’s 37.6% in the 1904 presidential election

Electoral votes

  • James Monroe’s 231 electoral votes to John Quincy Adams’s 1 electoral vote in 1820. (99.2% margin)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 523 electoral votes to Alf Landon’s 8 electoral votes in 1936. (97% margin)
  • Ronald Reagan’s 525 electoral votes to Walter Mondale’s 13 electoral votes in 1984. (95.2% margin)
  • Richard Nixon’s 520 electoral votes to George McGovern’s 17 electoral votes and John Hospers’s 1 in 1972. (93.3% margin)

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Historian says piece of papyrus refers to Jesus’ wife

A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of scripture: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife …'”

The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card, with eight lines on one side, in black ink legible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus having a wife, the papyrus includes a second provocative clause that purportedly says, “she will be able to be my disciple.”

The finding is being made public in Rome on Tuesday at an international meeting of Coptic scholars by the historian Karen L. King, who has published several books about new Gospel discoveries and is the first woman to hold the nation’s oldest endowed chair, the Hollis professor of divinity.

The provenance of the papyrus fragment is a mystery, and its owner has asked to remain anonymous. Until Tuesday, King had shown the fragment to only a small circle of experts in papyrology and Coptic linguistics, who concluded that it is most likely not a forgery. But she and her collaborators say they are eager for more scholars to weigh in and perhaps upend their conclusions.

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