Talk:Nice Peter vs EpicLLOYD 2/@comment-29961628-20170120161621/@comment-24328089-20170120231624

Yeah, it's happened about 4 or 5 times I believe. I'm not sure it's ever happened with both two branches of the government at the same time though. I also don't believe there's ever been this extreme of a difference, in pure number of people, in percentage or in EC numbers.

As for Bush, yeah I suppose he wasn't the worst president, nor was did he have the lowest favorability rating of any president on the day he was sworn into office. I respect him. People seemed to really dislike him by 2008 though, and all the 2008 Republican candidates had to distance themselves from Bush as much as possible. And Dubya's reputation was one of the things that Trump used against Jeb in 2015 and 2016.

The last 17 years would be a lot different had Americans gotten the president they voted for in 2000. My guess is that we would have had a republican from 2004-2012 and then a democrat would have been re-elected in 2016. But who knows who those people would be. Perhaps John McCain and then Obama? Or John McCain and then Hillary.