Presidential Re-elections
After the US presidential election of 2020, there was significant outcry, from his supporters, that incumbent president Donald Trump had lost the election because of irregularities within the voting system. As near as I could determine, there was little or no discussion as to why it was so widely assumed that he would win. He had lost the popular vote, in the 2016 presidential election, by a full two percentage points. There was no discussion, in the media, as to which 2016 Clinton voters he had won over, in time for the 2020 election, nor how he had done so. I wanted to see if, when a sitting president chose to run for a second term, his election was always a slam dunk. So I looked to the results of all the presidential elections since 1952. Data comes from wikipedia.org. Year Candidate __%__ 1952 Ike 55.2 Stevenson 44.3 1956 Ike 57.4 Stevenson 42.0 Here we have a case of the incumbent's popularity clearly increasing by the second e...