In a post about the effect of California splitting its electoral votes:

…it has been more than 40 years since the Democrats won a sizable majority of the popular vote.

I hadn’t thought about it, but that’s true. The last time there was a Democrat landslide, in terms of popular vote, was 1964. Every popular-vote landslide since then was a Republican one (Nixon in ’72, Reagan in ’80 and ’84, Bush in ’88). Clinton only got 43% in ’92, and couldn’t get a majority in ’96.

Maybe next year will be different, but given the current approval rating of a Democrat Congress (it’s currently lower than that of Michael Vick, I believe), and the disapproval rating of the person most likely to head their ticket, I wouldn’t bet on it.