Leftist Meme: 'Dem's Won 3/4 Last Presidential Popular Votes" Is Hubris.GOP Won 12 Of 18 In Their Ascendency

One of the latest leftist meme's in their ongoing post election gloating (which will end shortly as all these things do in the ongoing election cycle) is that the GOP is finished because of demographics etc etc. 

They point to the Republicans losing the popular vote in three out of the last four elections as proof that the Republicans are forever a minority party of "old white men". 

We've been through this before of course, after the 2004 election Republicans were gloating that "we control everything  the presidency, both houses of Congress, a majority of governorships, and the Supreme Court. Four years later all that was reversed.

But to put the current 'three out of four losses" in perspective lets look at, courtesy of Wikipedia, the elections from 1860, when the Republicans first won the presidency, to the end of their first ascendency  in 1928. Of the 18 elections, in the popular vote totals the GOP won 12 to the Democrats only 6 (in the Electoral College the score was Republicans 14 Democrats 4). 

In point of fact it is more than possible that if it were not for Black voter suppression/Jim Crow laws the Republicans would have won the popular vote in 1876 and 1884 making the true margin 14 Republican popular vote wins to the Dem's 4.

Thus for the gloating Dem's to see another one of the mystical 'permanent-majority" scenarios ( enter the party of your choice) which have surfaced every time there is a big win for either party, is just the result of hubris.

1876	Rutherford Hayes	Republican	47.92%	−3.00%	4,034,142	−252,666	Samuel Tilden	Democratic
26	1888	Benjamin Harrison	Republican	47.80%	−0.83%	5,443,633	−94,530	Grover Cleveland	Democratic
24	1880	James Garfield	Republican	48.31%	0.09%	4,453,337	1,898	Winfield Scott Hancock	Democratic
25	1884	Grover Cleveland	Democratic	48.85%	0.57%	4,914,482	57,579	James Blaine	Republican
27	1892	Grover Cleveland	Democratic	46.02%	3.01%	5,553,898	363,099	Benjamin Harrison	Republican
33	1916	Woodrow Wilson	Democratic	49.24%	3.12%	9,126,868	578,140	Charles Evans Hughes	Republican
28	1896	William McKinley	Republican	51.02%	4.31%	7,112,138	601,331	William Jennings Bryan	Democratic
21	1868	Ulysses Grant	Republican	52.66%	5.32%	3,013,790	304,810	Horatio Seymour	Democratic
29	1900	William McKinley	Republican	51.64%	6.12%	7,228,864	857,932	William Jennings Bryan	Democratic
31	1908	William H. Taft	Republican	51.57%	8.53%	7,678,335	1,269,356	William Jennings Bryan	Democratic
20	1864	Abraham Lincoln	Republican	55.03%	10.08%	2,211,317	405,090	George McClellan	Democratic
19	1860	Abraham Lincoln	Republican	39.65%	10.13%	1,855,993	474,049	John Breckinridge	Democratic
22	1872	Ulysses Grant	Republican	55.58%	11.80%	3,597,439	763,729	Horace Greeley	Democratic
32	1912	Woodrow Wilson	Democratic	41.84%	14.44%	6,296,284	2,173,563	Theodore Roosevelt	Progressive
36	1928	Herbert Hoover	Republican	58.21%	17.41%	21,427,123	6,411,659	Al Smith	Democratic
30	1904	Theodore Roosevelt	Republican	56.42%	18.83%	7,630,557	2,546,677	Alton Brooks Parker	Democratic
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35	1924	Calvin Coolidge	Republican	54.04%	25.22%	15,723,789	7,337,547	John Davis	Democratic
34	1920	Warren Harding	Republican	60.32%	26.17%	16,144,093	7,004,432	James Cox	Democratic