that must really chafe them.
Not really
Indeed, stats are funny things...
by putting in the constraint of two terms it leaves out
Presidents who only served one term
Technically, the statement is wrong.
McKinley won both terms over 50%
one just happened before the turn of the century
and one after (1900).
Out of that group..
only Reagan and Eisenhower
got more votes in later elections
Warm the heart ? Yes it does
Of course if we remove the constraint of
two terms
Presidents over 50% in the Last Century
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
FDR
Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Reagan
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Papa Obama
Oddly enough, the Democrats seem to be the worse at it
Warms the heart
Considering Papa Obama is the last Democrat to get
50% since Carter
it warms the heart, even more