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.
George W. Bush, of course, narrowly lost the popular vote, a fact exacerbated by the Florida recount â yet four years later, Bush won a popular majority. If Trump is seen by the voters as a good president, he may do the same â and if heâs seen as a bad one, that will be his undoing, not the popular vote in 2016. Until Barack Obama, every modern president to win reelection did so by expanding his voting coalition.