Well we did increase our Republican wins in the House and Senate.That was good...This is the first 0ver 50% popular vote win since 1988 I believe...The win is not comparable in percentage,of course ..other factors are very nice,though.(coattails)
It's interesting when you look at Bush's popular vote totals of 50.75% for 2004. Outside of LBJ's landslide victory in 1964 and the four elections of FDR, no Democrat presidential candidate has won the presidency getting that high a percentage of the popular vote total, going back to Franklin Pierce with 50.84%, in 1852. Samual Tilden garnered 50.97% in 1876, but lost by one electoral vote to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes who garnered 47.95% of the popular vote.