Over the last 236 years, there has only been one time when a political party has won the popular vote for the Presidency 5 times in a row.
It occurred during the New Deal and World War II era under Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
A party has won the popular vote for the Presidency 4 times in a row three times in history.
- The first time was during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. The Republican Party won the popular vote under the tickets of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Samuel Tilden from 1860 to 1872. Samuel Tilden lost the Electoral College but won the popular vote.
- The second time this occurred was when the Republicans won every election from 1896 through 1908 under McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft.
- The Democrats have won the popular vote in the last four elections under Obama, Clinton, and Biden. If President Biden wins this year, and I hope he does, this will be the third time in American history that a party wins the popular vote five times in a row. This is the only streak in American history where a party has won the popular vote four times in a row while losing the Electoral College during their streak.
We will see if we make history in November and tie Roosevelt and Truman for the longest streak of a party winning the popular vote in American history.