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What was the biggest popular vote landslide in a presidential election in the 20th century?
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The biggest popular vote landslide in a presidential election in the 20th century was in 1972, when Richard Nixon defeated George McGovern. Nixon received nearly 47 million popular votes, winning by a margin of over 23 million votes. This represented about 60.7% of the total popular vote, the largest in the 20th century.
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