Most polarizing election in the past 70 years

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dafuq,2004 is like 30th most

Lmao the left hated Bush extremely intensely (the things they say about Trump now ,they said about Bush then) and Republicans loved Bush like he was some Demi God .

Look at Bush and Kerry share of the opposite party vote ,and you will see it's less than what Hillary and Trump received.


2016 is only more polarizing than 2004(and that only slightly ) because of social media.

2004 wasn't even near 2016 levels lol.

The left hates Trump like I've never seen before. Hell, many leftists are now saying Bush was a great guy. Bill Maher was basically apologizing to Bush and Romney for his treatment of them because they "cried wolf."

No one remembers anything about the 2004 election besides being upset Kerry lost. The 2016 campaign however will go down as historical. From Trump's declaration that Mexico sends illegals who are rapists and drug dealers to Comey's letter, 2016 was crazy.

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dafuq,2004 is like 30th most

Lmao the left hated Bush extremely intensely (the things they say about Trump now ,they said about Bush then) and Republicans loved Bush like he was some Demi God .

Look at Bush and Kerry share of the opposite party vote ,and you will see it's less than what Hillary and Trump received.


2016 is only more polarizing than 2004(and that only slightly ) because of social media.

2004 wasn't even near 2016 levels lol.

The left hates Trump like I've never seen before. Hell, many leftists are now saying Bush was a great guy. Bill Maher was basically apologizing to Bush and Romney for his treatment of them because they "cried wolf."

No one remembers anything about the 2004 election besides being upset Kerry lost. The 2016 campaign however will go down as historical. From Trump's declaration that Mexico sends illegals who are rapists and drug dealers to Comey's letter, 2016 was crazy.

Are now saying , of dubya came back they would go back to hating him like they used to.


About left not hating dubya as much as trump just look at DU threads after 2004.


Yes the rethoric of 2016 was worse then 2004 but the numbers prove 2004 was more partisan than 2016.
 

Election threads of 2016 show that many Democrats said 2004 didn't even compare to 2016. The Young Turks Cenk was like "Wow I thought Kerry losing was bad but this is the worst."

2004 was more partisan only because in 2016 we had more third party votes.

Democrats think of Trump as the devil - Hitler reincarnated. Yeah, they'd make a "Bush war criminal" reference every now and then, but did Bush ever face a backlash over one event like Trump did last weekend? Not even close.

Trump's win has put many Democrats into complete shock and many of them are becoming outright unhinged - I never felt that way about them in 2004. Many of them have a thing called Hysteria. Induced by losing what they deemed to be their rightful throne, and any reasoning behind their loss CANNOT be legal or logical as it was rightfully theirs. Therefore, it was clearly Russian interference.

It was her turn!!!

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Why isn't 2000 here?

2000 at the night of the election was rather boring. Extremely low turnout because the 2 main candidates were beyond boring.

2000 of course became historical due to the Florida debacle and 9-11. But at the time of the election, it was really nothing special. The debates were supposed to get like 90 million viewers but ended up getting half that.

2004 got a ton more national interest because of the Iraq war of course.

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Trump got 9 percent of dem vote bush got 7 percent

Not that much big of a difference. Also, Trump lost a ton of Romney/suburban GOP voters.

And about DU, the DU literally shut down due to intense panic on election night. They tried to claim a Trump troll "hacked them" but I doubt that because right after this "hack" they said you could go on the forums if you were a premium member - but who the hell would give their credit card info to a website that was just hacked?

Trump's performance on election night put the DU in total shock.

As mentioned, 2004 was a lot closer (Bush led most of the polls in both swing states and PV) and Democrats were demoralized, but not outright shook.

2016 put them into total shock of incredible portions. 2004 was them seeing their pet die; 2016 was seeing a parent die.

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As tempting as it is to say 2016, I think this has to go to 1968.

2016 wins because an outsider won the Presidency.

In 1968 the Establishment was in full control. Wallace would get the whiners' votes, but he had no real chance to win.

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How bitter the comments are on social media, stuff like that... that is not measuring polarization.  If that is what you are describing, then you should be more precise with your language and choose another word.  Like "most intense" election.

The OP didn't say "polarization."

He said "polarizing."

" :  to break up into opposing factions or groupings a campaign that polarized the electorate"

So I thought he just met what caused it to be polarizing and so heated. Thus is why he brought up rhetoric, atmosphere, etc. etc. That's why he specifically brought up 68, 04, and 16 as well.

2016 is definitely polarizing because of how extremists (from the right and left) came out due to the rhetoric. On the left you had SJWs and Socialists, and on the right you had the Alt-Right.