I need help also!

[frogbison]

I read/heard somewhere that Bush's margin of victory was the smallest since Predident _____________, but can't remember who. Need this as ammunition in a discussion...

[flamingyouth]

1. Wilson

1916

[frogbison]

2. Thank you!

[flowomo]

3. well, be precise, it was "for an incumbent"

And Bush's slim majority is not all that impressive for an incumbent; Ronald Reagan, for example, claimed 51 percent of the vote in 1980, while gaining 59 percent four years later. Lyndon Johnson was the choice of 61 percent of voters in 1964, as was Richard Nixon in 1972. In terms of margin of victory, Al Hunt observed in the Wall Street Journal (11/4/04), Bush's victory was "the narrowest win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916."

http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1105-07.htm