Posted on 07/29/2016 1:00:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
Via the Free Beacon, a frivolous but fun historical misfire that illustrates how silly Team Obama's idolatrous "unprecedented!" meme can get. In an attempt to demonstrate how popular and awesome his boss is, White House spokesman Josh Earnest asserted that Obama is the only president to win consecutive popular vote majorities since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. This is wrong. Ronald Reagan replicated that feat in 1980 and 1984. When a reporter corrected Earnest on this point, Earnest smugly doubled down:
WH Falsely Claims Obama Only President To Win Majority Vote Twice Since Eisenhower
Back in reality, Reagan carried nearly 52 percent of the popular vote in 1980, beating Jimmy Carter by more than nine percentage points en route to a dominant 489 electoral vote haul. Four years later, Reagan destroyed Walter Mondale by roughly 18 points, winning every state except Minnesota; 525 electoral votes. Three additional presidents since Ike have scored back-to-back electoral college wins: Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Each man failed to hit the 50-percent-plus-one mark at least once. Clinton never won a popular vote majority. Many Democrats are pointing to Obama's relatively high approval ratings as an affirmation of his Oval Office tenure. Critics have attributed that uptick to a 2016 election cycle in which most voters are deeply dissatisfied with their choices, and in which the lame duck president has mostly faded into the background. What Obama fans don't mention is that his ratings were significantly worse throughout most of his presidency, that the country's right track/wrong track numbers are extremely poor, and that popular backlashes against his unpopular agenda resulted in an historic decimation of Democrats at the state and local level in consecutive midterm elections.
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Frivolous?
Had a GOP spox made such an incorrect assertion, he/she would have been pilloried in the press.
You are generous by calling that assertion “incorrect.” I say it is a lie.
This little Earnst kiddie is so damn stupid he shouldn’t be let outside with anything sharper than a beach ball.
He forgot to mention that Mrs. William Clinton’s husband didn’t get 50 percent either time.
Those maps prove to me that Trump, by punching thru to a few key Rust Belt states, can definitely win.
Obama is the first president to be reelected with FEWER votes than he received the first time.
Everybody is entitled to their own opinion.
Bu nobody is entitled to their own facts.....................
So the Democrats ran Adlai Stevenson against Ike twice? Talk about doubling down on stupidity.
What about Nixon in 68 and 72?
Was there big third party action in 68 that caused Nixon not to get majority?
ok, answered my own question. Wallace in fact took 13% in 68.
But yeah, omitting Reagan...that’s just...wow.
Are they talking real votes or fraudulent votes? After all Obama is the only one to ever get 114+% of eligible voters in certain districts.
Against any extremely weak presidential candidate.
Besides, most people only voted for B.O. twice because he is black, well at least half black.
William Jefferson Clinton is not mentioned.
They claim the RIGHT to self-identify as something other than what the FACTS are.
I thought Jay Carney was the worst, I couldn’t stand him.
Then they brought in this guy. He is the most insufferably smug jerk that embodies Obama’s presidency.
Easy to do when your constituents all vote two or three times.
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