Least divisive of the last 5 Presidential elections?

[Statilius the Epicurean]

2008 was pretty divisive, I remember Obama's name being booed in McCain's concession speech.

[twenty42]

I remember 2012 being a much less emotionally charged election season than 2004, 2008, or 2016. 2004 had the wars going on and the Bush hate from the left, 2008 was a big deal because of Obama (and Palin, to a lesser extent), and 2016 goes without saying.

I also remember the 2012 election season itself being unusually quiet compared to the other three. Election fervor began to sweep the nation by 2007 and 2015, but media coverage in 2012 didn't really heat up until the conventions. I guess there wasn't much to talk about, with an incumbent president running and a pretty uneventful primary from the Republicans.

[dw93]

Most Divisive to Least:

1. 2016
2. 2004
3. 2008
4. 2000
5. 2012

[Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"]

2008, because McCain and Obama were both popular.

This. 

I think it's tied with 2004, however.  It didn't have the rancor of 2012 or 2016.

[darklordoftech]

2000 wasn't divisive before the results dispute broke out in Florida, but became very divisive once that dispute broke out. 2004 had Democrats convinced that Dubya was an imperialist theocrat and Republicans convinced that Kerry was an Al-Qaeda sympathizer. 2008 and 2012 weren't too divisive, but 2016 was very divisive.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

2016 was only divisive because one of the major party candidates was literally and unapologetically a proud-in-his-ignorance racist. It didn't have to be.

[Adam Griffin]

From least to most:
2000
2008
2012
2004
2016

[Different Republican]

2008. It was a clear victory for the Democrats. No way was McCain winning with the baggage of Bush on him.

[Beet]

I remember 2012 being a much less emotionally charged election season than 2004, 2008, or 2016. 2004 had the wars going on and the Bush hate from the left, 2008 was a big deal because of Obama (and Palin, to a lesser extent), and 2016 goes without saying.

I also remember the 2012 election season itself being unusually quiet compared to the other three. Election fervor began to sweep the nation by 2007 and 2015, but media coverage in 2012 didn't really heat up until the conventions. I guess there wasn't much to talk about, with an incumbent president running and a pretty uneventful primary from the Republicans.

This, but 2000 was by far the most tame. Bush and Gore basically engaged in a technocratic debate over an $800 billion vs $1.3 trillion tax cut.