Is the 2016 election more similar to 1948 or 1976?

[URICK3]

Melior, you are absolutely spot on. However, you are overlooking numerous other similarities. For example:

1976-2016

 - In 1976 seventeen Democratic candidates ran for president. In 2016 seventeen Republican candidates ran for president.

 - In 1976 there was a bitterly contested Republican National Convention between the establishment candidate President Gerald R. Ford and the conservative candidate, former Governor of California Ronald Reagan. Ford wins the nomination, but then Reagan gives a speech that brings down the house and convinces a lot of people that they nominated the wrong guy. In 2016 there was a bitterly contested Democratic National Convention between the establishment candidate Hillary Clinton and the progressive candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders. Hillary wins the nomination, but Bernie's unfair treatment at the hands of the DNC, as well as his enormous popularity among the millennials and progressives, convinces a lot of people that they nominated the wrong guy.

 - Both elections 1976 & 2016 were not called until after three o'clock in the morning the following day. In 1976, NBC News called the election for Jimmy Carter at 3:31 AM ET. In 2016, NBC News called the election for Donald Trump at 3:04 AM ET.

 - On Election Night 1976 when President Ford realized that he'd lost, he retired to bed and sent one of his aids to the hotel where thousands of his supporters had gathered expecting a grand victory celebration to tell them to go home. On Election Night 2016 when Hillary Clinton realized she'd lost, she locked herself in her hotel room and sent John Podesta to the Javits Center in Manhattan to tell her thousands of supporters to go home.

 - And this was the icing on the cake for me. On Election Night 1976, during his victory address, President-elect Jimmy Carter said and I quote: "We will make America great once again!"