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.
Donald Trump Falsely Blames Popular-Vote Loss on Voter Fraud. Share. President-elect Donald Trump, who won the presidential election via the Electoral College but lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by at least 2.2 million votes, now falsely claims that he won the popular vote as well â because millions of Clinton voters voted illegally.