Mr. Morden
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« on: July 10, 2012, 10:01:12 PM » |
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« edited: July 10, 2012, 10:05:52 PM by Mr. Morden »
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This has pointed out here before, though I can't find the thread. Wilson also had a higher % of the popular vote his second time around, so I think you have to go all the way back to Andrew Jackson or so to find the last time an incumbent president won a second term with a smaller %age of the popular vote than the first time.
EDIT: And if you want the last time an incumbent president won a second term with both a reduced popular *and* electoral vote %age, I think you have to go back to James Madison....though I don't think every state had a popular vote tally back then.
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