But he felt he couldn't run again.
Note: Up until 1824 or so, popular vote totals are pretty much unreliable, and didn't matter much, anyway. But with the Adams-Jackson race being the 1st true divergence, from that point onward, it matters:
1964 Lyndon Johnson 61.1 (no one has topped this)
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt 60.8
1972 Richard Nixon 60.7 (no one has topped this since)
1920 Warren G. Harding 60.4
1984 Ronald Reagan 58.8 (no one has topped this since)
1928 Herbert Hoover 58.1
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt 57.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt 56.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant 55.6
1828 Andrew Jackson 55.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower 55.2
1864 Abraham Lincoln 55.1
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt 54.7
1832 Andrew Jackson 54.2
1924 Calvin Coolidge 54.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt 53.4
1988 George H.W. Bush 53.4 (no one has topped this since)
2008 Barack Obama 52.9 (no one has topped this since)
1840 William Henry Harrison 52.9
1868 Ulysses S. Grant 52.7
1900 William McKinley 51.6
1908 William Howard Taft 51.6
2012 Barack Obama 51.1 (no one has topped this since)
1896 William McKinley 51.0
1876 Samuel Tilden 50.9 (lost Electoral Vote)
2020 Joe Biden 50.8
1836 Martin Van Buren 50.8
1852 Franklin Pierce 50.8
1980 Ronald Reagan 50.7 (3-man race)
2004 George W. Bush 50.7
1976 Jimmy Carter 50.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
2024 Donald Trump 49.9 (several minor-party candidates)
1960 John F. Kennedy 49.7 (several minor-party candidates)
1948 Harry Truman 49.6 (4-man race)
1844 James K. Polk, 49.5 (3-man race)
1996 Bill Clinton 49.2 (3-man race)
1916 Woodrow Wilson 49.2 (several minor-party candidates)
1884 Grover Cleveland 48.8 (several minor-party candidates)
1888 Grover Cleveland 48.6 (several minor-party candidates, lost Electoral Vote)
2000 Al Gore 48.4 (3-man race, lost Electoral Vote)
1880 James Garfield 48.3 (3-man race)
2016 Hillary Clinton 48.2 (4-candidate race, lost Electoral Vote)
1848 Zachary Taylor 47.3 (3-man race)
1892 Grover Cleveland 45.9 (3-man race)
1856 James Buchanan 45.3 (3-man race)
1968 Richard Nixon 43.4 (3-man race)
1992 Bill Clinton 43.0 (3-man race)
1912 Woodrow Wilson 41.8 (3-man race)
1824 Andrew Jackson 40.5 (4-man race, lost Electoral Vote)
1860 Abraham Lincoln 39.7 (4-man race)
No comments:
Post a Comment