FDR and LBJ are the only two Candidates since the Civil War (Andrew Jackson in 1828) who have received 51% or more of the vote for President of the United States.
(Republicans have had twelve - George HW Bush, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Dwight Eisenhower, Hurbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding, William Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinnley, Ulysses Grant, Abraham Lincoln)
2007-07-19 12:14:20 · 14 answers · asked by ? 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
bbbbriggs04 - JFK 1960. Next.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110004320
2007-07-19 12:34:39 · update #1
mymadsky - I see you failed basic math. The question was 51% or more.
50.08% is not 51% or more.
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html
2007-07-19 12:38:08 · update #2
Rocco - Another Democrat with mathematical problems. Does any of his examples reach or exceed 51%?
Of course not.
Samuel Tilden - 50.92% (close but no cigar)
Woodrow Wilson - 41.84% & 49.24%.
Harry Truman - 49.55%
Jimmy Carter - 50.08%
Bill Clinton - 43.01% & 49.23%
2007-07-19 12:50:47 · update #3
They are definately aware. That is why Democrats would do anything to make a Republican look bad. Democrats are like drug addicts, but instead of doing anything for crack, they will do anything for votes. Anything from lying to making promises they can't make, to making a Repub. look bad to being friends with minorities that they don't even like. The Democratic way never helps a super power like America. Example- Jimmy Carter's term. The Democratic way can work in other countries like Canada. Vote Republican.
2007-07-19 12:19:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Things shift around, but I believe by and large the country is more conservative (note, NOT Republican) than it is liberal. It's just the nature of our nation.
To the guy above me who actually had the audacity to claim no Democratic President has ever rigged an election. Ever heard of a guy named Kennedy? Take a close look at what happened in Chicago that sealed him the election.
2007-07-19 19:22:24 · answer #2 · answered by Dekardkain 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Are you aware that the Republican party was essentially the same as the modern Democrat party up until it became associated with big business around the 1920s around TR's administration?
2007-07-19 19:18:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The other interesting thing to that is there have always been more Registered Democrats in the USA than Republicans.
2007-07-19 19:18:35 · answer #4 · answered by Ken C 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
What did Carter get?
oh 50%
Ford 48%
Reagan 2%
2007-07-19 19:19:00 · answer #5 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Aren't you guys always arguing that popular vote doesn't matter?
So what exactly is the point of your question? If what you say was important at all, then there wouldn't have been any Democrat Presidents since 1828.
Have there been?
2007-07-19 19:18:12 · answer #6 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 4⤊ 4⤋
First problem. When you asked if democrats are aware. Second problem. Their version of reality does not allow awareness.
2007-07-19 19:24:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
And it looks like they are going to add another one to the list if the current administration does'nt do something soon!!!!
2007-07-19 19:18:55 · answer #8 · answered by John M 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Quite the legacy.
2007-07-19 19:16:33 · answer #9 · answered by duckkillerdan 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Are you aware that only Republicans care?
2007-07-19 19:17:38 · answer #10 · answered by Cate 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋