[fhayek]

It is interesting to note how few Democrat candidates have received at least 50% of the vote in presidential elections. FDR achieved this with regularity, of course. And Lyndon Johnson scored a landslide in '64. Jimmy Carter just made it. Other than that, nobody else. Not Gore, not Clinton, not Kennedy, not Truman, not Wilson, not Grover Cleveland in any of their elections. The next democrat going backwards was before the Civil War.

Republicans have achieved this mandate 16 times since Lincoln. Grant twice, McKinley twice, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Ike twice, Nixon, Reagan twice and Bush I.

I guess we have to throw in Democrat Sam Tilden, got a majority of the electoral vote in 1876.

[fhayek]

Uh, Tilden got 51% of the popular vote in 1876.

[LenS]

Strange that one of the few Democrats to break the 50.1% barrier didn't win.