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In response to
"You're thinking of Gore. The Bush/Kerry election wasn't really that close."
by
Inigo
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It was. " Bush won the popular vote with 50.73% to Kerry's 48.27%. Although in percentage terms it was the closest popular margin ever for a victoriou
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s sitting president, he ended up getting higher percentage of the popular vote than 6 out of 8 Democratic Presidents who preceded him.[31] Bush received 2.5% more than Kerry. Bush's absolute victory margin (approximately 3 million votes) was the smallest of any sitting president since Harry S. Truman in 1948."
And as I remember the big reason he won was that too many people did not want to change presidents mid-stream during a war. And he wasn't nearly as unpopular then as he became.
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