(Jimmy Carter got 50.06% in 1976, and that was in the aftermath of Whitewater, Vietnam, and the height of the liberal activist hey-day. Clinton got 43.0% and 49.2%.)
That's 10 presidential elections, and (just barely) half the votes ONLY ONCE!!!!
What they really miss is having a viable third-party candidate like John Anderson or Ross Perot taking anti-establishment votes from the GOP. That's why they support McCain so heavily.
LBJ got 60.6% in the aftermath of the JFK assassination, but JFK himself only got 49.7%, and Truman got 49.8%.
You have to go back to FDR in 1944 to find the second Democrat who topped 50%... that's 60+ years!!!!
15 elections, and only twice did they break 50%... and one of those was by 0.06%.
Why does the GOP act like the minority party again????
A third-party candidate attacking their left flank would be poetic justice.