Most Disastrous Narrow Election Defeat for a Party in the Modern Era

[darklordoftech]

1948 seems to have been a poisoned chalice. 1960 was followed by Reagan becoming Governor and Nixon building a lasting Republican coalition. I’d say 2000 when you consider that all of Bush’s policies except for bans on same-sex marriage and No Child Left Behind have persisted to this day, Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz destroyed any sanity when it came to Republican foreign policy, Bush appointed a Chief Justice and a far-right SCOTUS justice, and Bush’s non-college-educated and rural voters have stuck with the GOP.