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To: QuinqueViae

1980: Ronald Reagan won with 55%, defeating runner-up John Connally.
1984: Uncontested (Reagan was the incumbent president and was re-nominated).
1988: George H. W. Bush won with 49%, defeating runner-up Bob Dole.
1992: George H. W. Bush won with 67%, defeating runner-up Pat Buchanan.
1996: Bob Dole won with 45%, defeating runner-up Pat Buchanan.
2000: George W. Bush won with 53%, defeating runner-up John McCain.
2004: Uncontested (Bush was the incumbent president and was re-nominated).
2008: John McCain won with 33%, defeating runner-up Mike Huckabee.
2012: Newt Gingrich won with 40%, defeating runner-up Mitt Romney.
2016: Donald Trump won with 33%, defeating runner-up Marco Rubio.

What do we see here?


46 posted on 02/20/2016 9:08:26 PM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: TomasUSMC
What do we see here?

What we see here is a repeat of 2008, when McCain won with a very low 33% plurality, because the majority of the voters--who did not want McCain--were split among the alternatives. And look how that turned out.

83 posted on 02/20/2016 9:24:02 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Social and constitutional conservative)
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To: TomasUSMC

Looks like America is going to be a communist nation.


188 posted on 02/20/2016 11:47:41 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: TomasUSMC
2016: Donald Trump won with 33%, defeating runner-up Marco Rubio.

What do we see here?

Let me guess...

...a WHOLE lot of OTHER candidates missing?




202 posted on 02/21/2016 2:40:32 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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