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"Overwhelmingly" is a stretch, I'd say. According to Wikipedia,[0] it passed with 58.93% of the vote.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_California_Proposition_18...

59-41 is an 18% swing, and would be considered an overwhelming majority in most political endeavors. Both modern and contemporaneous accounts of that particular election refer to the results as such, but feel free to attach whatever modifier you wish.

Idk. For me, if I had 20 friends, and 12 agreed to do something, I wouldn’t say they “overwhelmingly agree”. I’d just say a majority. But politics is on a much bigger scale.

Your friends are more likely to agree with you (and each other) on things because that's one of the reasons you're friends. I can think of very few things, other than the basics like "murder is bad", that 58% of the general public agrees on.

We're not even at 59% for "ghosts don't exist": https://today.yougov.com/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2...

Nit pick...but in a binary decision (yes/no), the margin is only 9% as every loss on one side is a gain on the other.

For example, a 9% swing results in a tie.

as far as votes go, anything over a 1-2% margin is usually considered "overwhelming"

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