Statistics for Election Losers

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Election Year	Failed Candidate	% Correct
1872	Thomas Hendricks \| Horace Greeley \| Charles Jenkins \| David Davis \|	100%
1812	DeWitt Clinton	88%
2020	Donald Trump	88%
1976	Gerald Ford	88%
1932	Herbert Hoover	88%
2016	Hillary Clinton	88%
1980	Jimmy Carter \| John Anderson	88%
1828	John Adams	88%
1800	John Adams	88%
1960	Richard Nixon	88%
1912	Theodore Roosevelt \| William Taft \| Eugene Debs	88%
1944	Thomas Dewey	88%
1948	Thomas Dewey \| Strom Thurmond	88%
1796	Thomas Jefferson	88%
1952	Adlai Stevenson	75%
1956	Adlai Stevenson	75%
2000	Al Gore	75%
1928	Al Smith	75%
1824	Andrew Jackson \| William Crawford \| Henry Clay	75%
1964	Barry Goldwater	75%
1892	Benjamin Harrison \| James Weaver	75%
1996	Bob Dole \| Ross Perot	75%
1992	George Bush \| Ross Perot	75%
1888	Grover Cleveland	75%
2004	John Kerry	75%
2008	John McCain	75%
1848	Lewis Cass \| Martin Van Buren	75%
1840	Martin Van Buren	75%
1988	Michael Dukakis	75%
1984	Walter Mondale	75%
2012	Mitt Romney	63%
1836	William Harrison \| Hugh White \| Daniel Webster \| Willie Mangum	63%
1936	Alf Landon	38%
1916	Charles Hughes	38%
1864	George McClellan	38%
1972	George McGovern	38%
1844	Henry Clay	38%
1832	Henry Clay	38%
1868	Horatio Seymour	38%
1968	Hubert Humphrey \| George Wallace	38%
1884	James Blaine	38%
1860	John Beckinridge \| John Bell \| Stephen Douglas	38%
1924	John Davis \| Robert La Follette	38%
1856	John Frémont \| Millard Filmore	38%
1816	Rufus King	38%
1876	Samuel Tilden	38%
1940	Wendell Willkie	38%
1852	Winfield Scott	38%
1808	Charles Pinckney	25%
1804	Charles Pinckney	25%
1920	James Cox	25%
1900	William Bryan	25%
1908	William Bryan	25%
1896	William Bryan	25%
1880	Winfield Hancock	25%
1904	Alton Parker	13%