and boy, were they wrong about poor alf landon.he governor did not just lose to fdr in that 1936 election, he just got clobbered. president roosevelt beat him by 24 points. and that was actually the good news for alf landon. in terms of the electoral votes, fdr won 523 electoral votes. governor landon won -- eight. he couldn't even carry his home state of kansas. that was the most lopsided u.s. election since 1820, which was a time when u.s. presidents were basically running unopposed. polling, of course, has changed dramatically since 1936. it's way more scientific. but there are still elections every now and again, where things go all hickelty picklety. like, for example, last week's michigan primary on the democratic side. it's interesting. in michigan polls basically got the republican side of the race right. but on the democratic side, the polling was a complete disaster. before that vote last week in michigan, hillary clinton had led in every public poll in that state since june of last year. of the 1 public polls conducted,