This was the beginning of the so-called âbaby boom.â In 1947, another 3.8 million babies were born; 3.9 million were born in 1952; and more than 4 million were born every year from 1954 until 1964, when the boom finally tapered off. By then, there were 76.4 million âbaby boomersâ in the United States.
In the election of 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Democrat Samuel J. Tilden in what some consider the most disputed presidential election in American history. Tilden won the popular vote that year, getting about 4.3 million votes while Hayes only got about 4.03 million votes.
Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush also experienced similar high approval numbers, garnering 67% and 61% favorable ratings, respectively, after their first elections. Obama will leave office with lower approval ratings than Clinton, who was at 66% in Gallupâs final poll while he was president. But the outgoing president will leave far more popular than Bush, whom 34% of Americans approved of when he left office.