If that is so, then it certainly is interesting that they only use such labels when their side loses. If this had been a 70-30, it would have been presented as a vindication of their agenda and "another sign of the national reckoning in the wake of the brutal murder of George Floyd".
"Landslide victory" would be a better descriptor. Otherwise, literally EVERY SINGLE THING IN THE WORLD is "bitterly divided".
Want bacon for breakfast? People have religious objections to it, bitterly. You made a bitterly divided breakfast decision. Want kale salad for lunch? The carnivore movement has thoughts on that: your lunch decision is bitterly divided. And then in a bitterly divisive decision, you took a train home from work, since some environmentalists are bitterly serious about removing all transit including trains.
As has been pointed out on twitter: 70/30 is not "a bitterly divided election". It's very decisive.
That's not what the common person reads it as though.
If that is so, then it certainly is interesting that they only use such labels when their side loses. If this had been a 70-30, it would have been presented as a vindication of their agenda and "another sign of the national reckoning in the wake of the brutal murder of George Floyd".
"Anti-racists celebrate landmark victory in Texas"
It really doesn't.
"Landslide victory" would be a better descriptor. Otherwise, literally EVERY SINGLE THING IN THE WORLD is "bitterly divided".
Want bacon for breakfast? People have religious objections to it, bitterly. You made a bitterly divided breakfast decision. Want kale salad for lunch? The carnivore movement has thoughts on that: your lunch decision is bitterly divided. And then in a bitterly divisive decision, you took a train home from work, since some environmentalists are bitterly serious about removing all transit including trains.