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64 Years

On Election Night, I noted that Barack Obama's was winning the highest percentage of the popular vote for any Democrat since 1964.

But if you put aside LBJ's historic landslide, you have to go back another twenty years to find another Democratic candidate who won as much as Obama's 53% of the popular vote: FDR in 1944, who won 53.4% of the vote.

Posted by Ed Kilgore on November 6, 2008 05:55 PM

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I'm enjoying imagining the salty ways LBJ might comment on news of Tuesday's results. Do you think Bill Moyers could be induced to offer an informed guess?

Posted by: sporcupine [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 6, 2008 11:31 PM

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