This was the beginning of the so-called âbaby boom.â In 1947, another 3.8 million babies were born; 3.9 million were born in 1952; and more than 4 million were born every year from 1954 until 1964, when the boom finally tapered off. By then, there were 76.4 million âbaby boomersâ in the United States.
In the election of 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Democrat Samuel J. Tilden in what some consider the most disputed presidential election in American history. Tilden won the popular vote that year, getting about 4.3 million votes while Hayes only got about 4.03 million votes.
Potentially, this would be the fifth time a candidate has won the popular vote but failed to win the election. Clintonâs most recent company is fellow Democrat Al Gore, whose supporters outvoted George W. Bushâs in 2000, but narrowly lost the electoral vote via the highly-contested state of Florida.