re: #160 Belafon
Nixon 1960: 49.55%
Gore 2000: 48.38%
Kerry 2004: 48.26%
Ford 1976: 48.01%
Romney 2012: 47.15%
Trump 2016: 46.17%
I look at that those results rather critically and then remember that the Electoral College also gave us Abraham Lincoln in 1860 with only 39.8% of the vote.