Marley-if FDR won 50% at least twice you’re are obviously correct.
But what about Barack Cleveland? 
He won with >50% in all 4 elections.
Barack was just Grover’s nickname. So the stat still holds 
Yes. He was never RE-elected. But it’s often called that. Same with Truman.
FDR’s closest election was his fourth, where he got a little more than 53% of the vote and won by 7.5 points. That’s a little bit better than Obama did in 2008.
I need to modify this point: Nixon and George W. Bush can’t get into the double-50% club. They both did better than 50% in their re-election campaigns but not in the first successful campaigns. Nixon got only 43.4% of the popular vote in 1968 - and also the second time really shouldn’t count what with all the cheating - and Bush got 47.9% in 2000. Eisenhower and Reagan surpassed 50% in both of their wins, as Clinton and Obama did.
Clinton did not get 50% in either of his elections. Wikipedia puts him at 43% in '92 and 49.2% in '96.
And in the same vein, it’s obvious why Romney/Ryan lost - no Republican has won the presidency since 1928 without a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket. :dubious:
But… no alliterative ticket (Romney/Ryan) had ever lost before!!!
Of course. I even said that upthread. I’m not doing very well at keeping track of all the conditions of this piece of trivia.
Except in 1952.
Where does this keep coming from?
Black Barack was NOT the first President whose race rhymes with his forename. That man was White Dwight.
Who pronounces “black” to rhyme with “Barack”?
Jamaicans?
Japanese. In fact, they would be pronounced almost identically.
Eisenhower’s forename was David. Dwight was his middle name.
Eisenhower was one of five presidents who went by his middle name rather than his first name. The others were Grant, Cleveland, Wilson, and Coolidge. And in most of these cases the future president abandoned a common first name - Stephen, Thomas, John, David - for an uncommon middle name - Grover, Woodrow, Calvin, Dwight. The exception was Grant who switched Hiram for Ulysses.
If he had been elected, Willard Mitt Romney would have continued this tradition.
Ike and Grant switched becasue West Point messed up their names upon admission, and they ran with it.
No, it was earlier than that. Eisenhower had a cousin named David so his family called him Dwight instead so there would be no confusion. By the time he went to school, his name was registered as Dwight David instead of the David Dwight on his birth certificate. (He also had the nickname Ike from childhood).
Grant was named Hiram Ulysses but the Hiram was never used and he grew up being called Ulys within his family.
Two other Union figures didn’t use their first names either. William Tecumseh Sherman never used the name William and went by a shortened version of his middle name - his family and friends called him Cump. And Abraham Lincoln hated the name Abraham (or Abe) and was always called Lincoln even within his immediate family.
Thank you Nemo! Excellent trivia I was unaware of.
These stats are meaningless. To begin with, for Clinton’s reelection there was a somewhat strong third candidate.