Least divisive of the last 5 Presidential elections?

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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.

[Beet]

Were some of you too young for 2004 or something?

The answer is clearly 2008, simply by virtue of McCain not seriously being in the running to win for the last two months of the election.

No, but the McCain supporters were still pretty wild. Some of those Sarah Palin rallies were like mobs.

[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.