Dewey lost twice ~ Please Lord, remove Romney from consideration again we already did that one.
The cold hard facts are that most Republicans over that period lost at least once ~ even two of the winners (Bush 1 and Nixon).
The reason was simple ~ not enough Republican voters!
A few won. The reason was simple ~ not enough Democrat voters!
The whole point of a campaign is to fire up your people to turn out and vote. Jefferson did that over and over and won by landslides.
We have these guys who do the subtle nuance thing and 'move to the left' ~ whatever that is ~ and they imagine they will bring over scads of middle of the road undecided moderates!
Bwahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
It's much easier to get your followers registered and get them to the polls, and campaign for them to do that ~ register and vote.
Then, you want to tell the other side that their candidates are scum and not worthy to be considered human, and that's on their good days!
Nixon won when he went after MORE REPUBLICAN VOTERS, as did RONALDUS MAGNUS and, of course, IKE did the job as well.
LBJ won by getting new Democrat voters ~ the 25% of the black vote JFK left behind. Bill Clinton finessed it by getting Jugears to run, and then there's Obama ~ the Democrats got more new Democrats registered, and then got them to vote!
JFK is probably the last President to get elected mostly by fraud.
Everybody voted for LBJ and he won in a massive landslide, it wasn't just blacks.
LBJ did something that only one other democrat candidate has ever done in America, he won the Protestant vote.