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* What happens when 30 hornets invade a colony of ''30,000 honeybees?'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDSf3Kshq1M This trope...]
* [[Ronald Reagan]]'s 1984 electoral victory saw him winning 49 states. Mondale took Minnesota and D.C.
** Reagan's support was better distributed but previous candidates in previous elections got more votes than he did (58.8%). [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] got 61,1% in 1964, [[Richard Nixon]] got 60.7% in 1972 and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] got 60.8% in 1936.
*** In the first two American presidential elections, nobody even bothered running against George Washington and inevitable curb-stomps were averted. Washington stepped down from the presidency after his second term precisely because he felt that his presence was keeping American democracy from developing properly.
* The 1997 North Hollywood Shootout was (almost) a curb stomp battle between two gun men and the police. You'd think the police against two guys would be the ones stomping curb. Nope. The two robbers were wearing body armor and were wielding automatic weapons, forcing the police to stay behind cover as the two made their escape. For about half an hour, the two shooters fired as they pleased at the officers, impervious to whatever fire could be returned. But during the escape, the two were split up, allowing the police to flank them separately. After almost an hour of kicking ass, one robber shot himself in the head, and the other bled out after being shot in the legs and captured. The Los Angeles police actually started issuing armor-piercing bullets and assault weapons as standard equipment afterwards.
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