Interesting history that overwhelmingly favors Romney

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Every phenomenon is unprecedented right up until the first time it happens. In the grand scheme of things 'winning a reelection narrower than one's first election' is hardly a profound anomaly.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

And now Obama is the first President to win a narrower reelection in almost a century. So there.