Least divisive of the last 5 Presidential elections?

[OSR stands with Israel]

2004 was extremely divisive, Bush was hated fervently by every group in the democratic party while viewed as a hero by Republicans . Voter turnout hit it's highest levels since the 1968 election since Democrats went to the polls in droves to defeat Bush, and Republicans went in polls in droves to reelect Bush. Every state(except IA , NH,NM) not only voted the same way as they did in 2000 , they went even more  Red/Blue. I mean Bush still won the 2000 election despite losing the popular vote , only won the 2004 election by 1 state despite winning the election by over 3 million votes.


If you want to see how divisive 2004 was, here's how 2004 would have gone on a purely PVI basis(the country swung 3 points GOP in 2004)

Bush 318
Kerry 220


Instead Bush lost NH, lost Maine 2nd by 6 points, lost Wisconsin, lost Minnesota by 3.5%, lost Oregon by 4 points.  

[OSR stands with Israel]

I would say 2000. The actual general election campaign was slightly boring. The main controversy and divisiveness of the election was mostly due to the disputed results of Election Day and the after effects which are still felt today.

This. 2000 was the last "20th century election" where politics in general was pretty boring.

how was 1976,1980,1992 boring .

[OSR stands with Israel]

It's entertaining that the people who think that 2004 was a given for the GOP and are shocked by how close it was, are the same ones who are shocked by Romney's weak performance in 2012, and are also the same ones who claim that a generic neocon would've done better in 2016.

The common refrain they also have is that Obama 2008 was inevitable, do you people not see the logical contradiction?

Obama '08 ran as a total repudiation of neo-conservatism, if you believe that Obama '08 was inevitable, you shouldn't be shocked by what happened in '04, and '12, and you shouldn't be overconfident about alternate 2016 scenarios.

Bush was leading by 7 points before the debate , and if it wasn't for the economic crash the 2008 election would have been very close

[OSR stands with Israel]

In some ways 2004 was even more devise then 2016, as in 2004 neither Bush or Kerry even tried to win the support of any group in the other side while in 2016 Hillary tried to win the support of many moderate and never trump republicans while Trump went after Blue Collar Democrats . In 2004 Bush and Kerry just ran a base only campaign and it worked for Bush .