what is the biggest presidential landslide?
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Although some political pundits predicted a close race, Roosevelt went on to win the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the two-party system in the 1850s. Roosevelt took 60.8% of the popular vote, while Landon won 36.5% and Lemke won just under 2%.
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The election of the President goes to the House of Representatives. Each state delegation casts one vote for one of the top three contenders to determine a winner. Only two Presidential elections (1800 and 1824) have been decided in the House.
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['Donald Trump: 1441 delegates.', 'Ted Cruz: 551 delegates.', 'Marco Rubio: 174 delegates.', 'John Kasich: 162 delegates.', 'Ben Carson: 9 delegates.', 'Jeb Bush: 2 delegates.', 'Rand Paul: 1 delegate.', 'Mike Huckabee: 1 delegate.']
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In the midst of the American Civil War, incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote.
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Bush, won the election, defeating Democratic nominee Al Gore, the incumbent vice president. It was the fourth of five presidential elections in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote, and is considered one of the closest elections in US history.
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["The World's Hardest Job.", "The President's Typical Day in Washington, DC."]
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Five times a candidate has won the popular vote and lost the election. Andrew Jackson in 1824 (to John Quincy Adams); Samuel Tilden in 1876 (to Rutherford B. Hayes); Grover Cleveland in 1888 (to Benjamin Harrison); Al Gore in 2000 (to George W.
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['January 17: Northridge earthquake.', 'April 22: Former President Richard Nixon dies at 81.', 'November 8: Republicans gain control of Congress (Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich pictured)', 'Richard Nixon.', 'Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.']
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Roosevelt spent the longest. Roosevelt is the only US president to have served more than two terms.
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The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior U.S. Senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior Senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska.
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It was the fourth of five presidential elections in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote, and is considered one of the closest elections in US history. Gore secured the Democratic nomination with relative ease, defeating a challenge by former Senator Bill Bradley.
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['Herbert Hoover. Republican against FDR in election of 1932.', 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Democrat running against Hoover in election of 1932. ... ', 'Eleanor Roosevelt. 1st active and greatest 1st lady. ... ', 'Marian Anderson. ... ', 'New Deal. ... ', 'Brain trust. ... ', 'Hundred Days. ... ', 'Fireside Chats.']
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1876 United States presidential election – One of the most disputed and controversial presidential elections in American history between the Democratic Party's candidate Samuel J. Tilden and the Republican Party's candidate Rutherford B.
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In the Presidential election, Democratic Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey defeated Republican President William Howard Taft and former president and Progressive Party nominee Theodore Roosevelt. Socialist union leader Eugene Debs, running his fourth campaign, took six percent of the vote.
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['CNN launches. ... ', 'Very PC. ... ', 'Going mobile. ... ', 'Challenger disaster. ... ', 'President Reagan assassination attempt. ... ', 'Berlin Wall falls. ... ', 'The AIDS Epidemic. ... ', "Wall Street Crash. The decade of greed and excess was marked by Wall Street's great crash of 1987."]
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Electoral College map showing results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Republican Donald Trump won the popular vote in 30 states (red) and in Maine's 2nd congressional district to capture 306 electoral votes.
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was the Democratic candidate for the US presidency in the disputed election of 1876, the most controversial American election of the 19th century. ... In the 1876 election the Republicans carried the election with 1 electoral vote, however, Republican Hayes lost the popular vote to Democratic Tilden.