Clinton won because Ross Perot siphoned off enough votes to give Clinton a plurality. In both 1992 and 1996, more people voted against Clinton than voted for him.
Of course, when Clinton was elected with 43% of the popular vote in 1992, the Democrats and the MSM proclaimed it a "mandate." When Bush won re-election in 2004 with over 53% of the vote, the Democrats and the MSM called it a "bare majority."
Who can tell me the last three Democrat presidents to win with more than 53% of the popular vote?
Link? I'm seeing not 53% but more like 50.7%Lyndon Johnson and FDR were the recent ("within my lifetime") Democrats to win 53% of the vote. I think that among Republicans Reagan, Nixon, and Eisenhower all did it.