What year was 2020 a redux of in the end?

[Paul Biya isn’t going far enough]

Honestly I’m almost inclined to say 1968.

[EJ24]

I would say 92.

Biden's win in the primary mirrored Clinton's comeback, and the result in the general was primarily due to an incumbent who couldn't handle crisis (for HW Bush it was a recession, for Trump it was COVID).

[Chips]

I would say 92.

Biden's win in the primary mirrored Clinton's comeback, and the result in the general was primarily due to an incumbent who couldn't handle crisis (for HW Bush it was a recession, for Trump it was COVID).

[Motorcity]

I don’t think 1980 was a redux of any year. It was too unique.

Never before had you had such a repulsive and incompetent president that had 40-45% of the country in a cult. Or a booming economy that comes to a literal halt.

I suppose the closest thing is 1968 because of the turmoil, but 1968 was the end of the new deal consensus. The current era of divisiveness is only going to get worst

[Progressive Pessimist]

1976 with a splash of 1968 and 1992.

[It's Time.]

1976. Corrupt old white man republican who makes some questionable pardons and is from a swing state loses to a white man democrat from the census-definition of the south by a very narrow margin. polls overestimate said democrat, and the elections comes down to a few thousand votes in a few states.

[Fusternino]

2016. A bunch of white guys who wouldn't vote for a white woman in 2016 voted for another white dude in 2020, turning a narrow EC loss into a narrow EC win.

[Orser67]

I'll say 1976. A challenger barely beat a fairly weak incumbent in a race where third parties were largely unimportant. And I'll add that both incumbents kinda felt like quasi-incumbents; for obvious reasons in Ford's case, and in Trump's case because he lost the popular vote, barely won the tipping point states, and it just generally felt like his win was a fluke. With all that said, Carter and Biden aren't great comparisons

[Skill and Chance]

The outcome (winning party, PV margin, and margins in key states) was basically identical to 1948.