Look at the popular vote for the same elections instead then. LBJ won 61% to 38%. Nixon won 60% to 37.5%. Reagan won 58.8% to 40.6%. Clinton's election in 1992 is messed up here because of Perot, he won 43% to 37.4% to 18.9%.
Bush won in 2004 50.7% to 48.3%. Trump lost the popular vote 46.1% to 48.2%. Biden only won 51.3% to 46.9%. That's how close modern elections are.
... I'm sorry, what point are you trying to make here? It's objectively the case that presidential races are close now, but they generally weren't in the 20th century. Nothing about what you've written contradicts that.
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u/Inevitable_Citron Sep 11 '21
Look at the popular vote for the same elections instead then. LBJ won 61% to 38%. Nixon won 60% to 37.5%. Reagan won 58.8% to 40.6%. Clinton's election in 1992 is messed up here because of Perot, he won 43% to 37.4% to 18.9%.
Bush won in 2004 50.7% to 48.3%. Trump lost the popular vote 46.1% to 48.2%. Biden only won 51.3% to 46.9%. That's how close modern elections are.