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There have only been a total of 6 Democratic Presidents to ever be elected President while winning 50% or more of the popular vote, in US history. They are: Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren Franklin Pierce Franklin Roosevelt Lyndon Johnson Jimmy Carter In 2004, George Bush was re-elected President of the United States winning 50.73% of the popular vote. There are only two Democratic Presidents that have ever been re-elected President winning 50% or more of the popular vote, Andrew Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt. |
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#922 | |
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Those stats don't say anything about the 2008. Anything before the 1964 is really pointless. If we could get African Americans and women to not be able to vote, the GOP would get over 50%. ![]() If you want to include everybody then we should at least start with the Civil Rights act in 1964. LBJ got 61 % Has any Republican ever got 61% ? |
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#923 | |
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There have only been 3 Democratic Presidents elected to office since 1964. Only one was re-elected President. In only 2 of the 4 elections that they won, were they able to get 50% or more of the popular vote. With the exception of 1968 and 2000, every Republican elected to President since 1964 has received 50% or more of the popular vote. There has not been a single Democrat since 1964 to be re-elected with 50% or more of the vote like George Bush was in 2004. LBJ has the largest popular vote percentage total in history at 61%. Nixon in 1972 was close though with 60.67%. The greatest Electoral Landslide in history was Ronald Reagan's 1984 victory where he won 58% of the popular vote and won every state in the Union except Minnesota. He only lost that state by 3,000 votes. |
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Yes but is we are merely stating facts here
It is a irrefutable fact that more Americans voted for John Kerry for President than the number of Americans that voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984. So, Reagan's 1984 landslide falls behind both Al Gore and John Kerry in number of votes. More American went to the polls for Al Gore or John Kerry than for Reagan in a single election. |
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#925 |
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Which brings you full circle back to the historical fact that still has the rest of the world outside the United States absolutely gobsmacked:
More people voted for George Bush in the 2004 election than for any other candidate in history. We’re still all waiting for you to explain that one. |
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I was not one of them
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There's a lot of people clamoring for Obama to "hit back hard" and if this is what they mean I hope he won't continue in that direction. It diminishes him (as it has diminished McCain) and it could prove harmful to him in a way that it isn't to McCain due to the "angry black man" thing that Irvine astutly pointed out. I don't need to defend the e-mails because I don't think Obama's team was involved in that. |
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My name is Buster Taint Palin
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W is actually one of the least popular U S Presidents ever. The fact that more people voted for him than for any other candidate in history. Is saying nothing more than the fact that in 2004 the country had a population or 300 million and there really was not a viable 3rd party candidate. In 1964 when L B J got one of the highest percentages - 61.1% the population was 192 million. Each of Bill Clinton's elections had a viable 3rd candidate in Ross Perot. Bill Clinton beat the GOP candidate by 9 %. George Bush II only beat Kerry by 3 %. 1992 election results Clinton 43 % Bush 37.4 % Perot 18.9 % 1996 Clinton 49.2 % Dole 40.7 % Perot 8.4 % |
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He still should have been rolled by a record %.
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it does seem to be. the polls are slowly but surely moving back to Obama, and he seems to have found his groove on the stump with a particularly nice line about [paraphrased], "McCain says he's going to take on the old boys network; in the McCain campaign, they call "the old boys network" a staff meeting." that's a memorable line that will stick. and don't think that Tina Fey and Sarah Palin is going to go away any time soon. the ratings were boffo for SNL last week (despite that being the only tolerable skit). so expect much more. seems like that ad is deceitful. though this is what the Democrats have been begging Obama to do for quite a while. no doubt the large amount of Latino voters in CO, NM, and especially NV were the targets for this ad. and i agree with Utoo -- if there's a conspiracy behind Ms. Palin's Yahoo! account, i'd be more inclined to think that it was the McCain campaign itself trying to generate sympathy. |
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these are precisely the characteristics that would have prevented Iraq, Katrina, the decimation of the Justice Department, the wild expansion of executive powers, the erosion of our standing in the world, the deregulation of the markets to the extent that perhaps capitalism as we know it has collapsed ... give me a flip-flopper any day over an incurious, proud-to-be-ignorant ideologue. |
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a senior moment for McCain?
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so does John McCain not know who the president of Spain is, or does he think Spain is a country in Latin America? |
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number of people voting for Reagan in 1984: 54,455,472 number of people voting for Al Gore in 2000: 51,003,926 number of people voting for J. Kerry in 2004: 59,028,439 number of people voting for Johnson in 1964: 43,127,041 number of people voting for W in 2004: 62,040,610 Yes, John Kerry and George Bush in 2004 did receive more votes than Reagan did in 1984 if you just compare the nominal numbers. But if you adjust for the size of the population which was 235 million in 1984 VS. 295 million in 2004, then Reagan's 1984 victory is still out in front. |
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#939 | |
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There are only TWO democratic Presidents that have ever been re-elected with 50% or more of the popular vote, Andrew Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt. Without those two, the Democrats don't have anyone as popular and successful as W was in November 2004. Yes, if you adjust for population, Johnson is ahead of W, but not by much and Johnson was not re-elected like W. |
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