[GraniteStateConservative]

Not only has Pres. Bush exceeded his 2000 total by more than 10 million votes, he has also broken Pres. Reagan's 1984 vote record by more than 6 million votes!!

Unless he gets to 59% of the vote, he can't claim any superiority over Ronaldus Maximus.

[FreeReign]

Unless he gets to 59% of the vote, he can't claim any superiority over Ronaldus Maximus.

Yes, thanks to Reagan's citizenship amnesty.

Do the math.

[cyncooper]

I don't see President Bush claiming a damn thing about superiority over Reagan.

Stand down.

[AaronInCarolina]

Unless he gets to 59% of the vote, he can't claim any superiority over Ronaldus Maximus.

No one can take away the impressive win that Reagan had, but you have to consider that, while Reagan had a great deal of media opposition, I don't think he had anything like what was thrown at President Bush. There is really no equivalent in history of coordinated attacks against the incumbent president like occurred in this election. The anti-Bush 527 groups were much more funded and active than the few anti-Kerry 527 groups. Fox News said that the anti-Bush groups spent $400 million to unseat Bush. Also, no president has had the blatantly open attempts to unseat him like happened with CBS/Rathergate and ABC/HalperinMemoGate. No president has had a lie-filled feature-length movie (F-9/11) released in major theaters during the summer before the election, with DVD's released weeks before the election. If these attempts to unseat Bush had not occurred and not been as effective as they were, I believe Bush would have won with at least as big an electoral landslide as Reagan did.