For the last 120 years, if an incumbent president received more votes in his re-election campaign than he received in his election, he was re-elected. In fact, if the incumbent president merely maintained 90% of his original vote total, he has always been re-elected. Until now.
Here is a chart that shows only presidents who were elected and then ran for re-election, which is why Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, LBJ, and Ford are not included:
In 2008, Obama received 69.5 million votes but won re-election with 61 million votes. By contrast, Trump won in 2016 with 63 million votes but lost re-election win 70.5 million (as of this writing) votes. Joe Biden, who doesn't hold a candle to Obama in the charisma department, received 75 million votes.
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