Orser67
Junior Chimp
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« on: November 03, 2020, 12:30:09 PM » |
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Using percent of electoral vote won over 50%, percent of popular vote won over 50%, national popular vote margin of victory (percentile), and tipping point margin of victory (percentile), I created what's designed to be a ranking system for presidential elections by the degree to which the winner won decisively. I'm not sure if I'm fully content with the criteria and the lack of weighting for each criteria, but I think the results are at least a reasonable starting point. To be 100% clear, there is no manual ranking here, the list is just the result of the factors I mentioned above.
Thoughts?
Election Winner Score
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt 103.7
1972 Richard Nixon 102.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson 98.3
1920 Warren G. Harding 93.8
1984 Ronald Reagan 93.6
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt 81.8
1928 Herbert Hoover 73.9
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower 73.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge 68.6
1904 Theodore Roosevelt 64.4
1864 Abraham Lincoln 63.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower 60.8
1980 Ronald Reagan 59.3
1832 Andrew Jackson 58.3
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt 56.2
1872 Ulysses S. Grant 55.8
1912 Woodrow Wilson 50.7
1852 Franklin Pierce 48.8
1988 George H. W. Bush 48.2
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt 47.3
1840 William Henry Harrison 42.2
1868 Ulysses S. Grant 37.6
2008 Barack Obama 37.5
1996 Bill Clinton 37.3
1908 William Howard Taft 36.8
1900 William McKinley 31.4
1836 Martin Van Buren 25.2
1992 Bill Clinton 22.1
2012 Barack Obama 22
1856 James Buchanan 20.7
1896 William McKinley 20.2
1860 Abraham Lincoln 16.6
1892 Grover Cleveland 14.5
1844 James K. Polk 13.9
1848 Zachary Taylor 11.9
1948 Harry S. Truman 11.6
2004 George W. Bush 8.5
1880 James A. Garfield 8.3
1976 Jimmy Carter 7.8
1960 John F. Kennedy 6.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison 6.2
1916 Woodrow Wilson 4.9
1884 Grover Cleveland 4.2
1968 Richard Nixon 2.3
2016 Donald Trump 1.2
2000 George W. Bush -2.2
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes -4.5
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