setting aside *whatever* political bent these are coming from, in what fucking world does “sort-of landslide” explain what is happening for the reader? if you are not writing to be clearly understood, then what in the fuck are you doing?
I mean, they’re trying to undermine left-wing power, but understand that they’re going too far that no one will listen if they don’t call it a landslide.
So you get this muddled compromise, because undermining left-wing power is more important to them than clarity