John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson
William McKinley vs. William Jennings Bryan
The answer to this question is b
A loyalist is one who is or remains loyal especially to a political cause, party, government, or sovereign.
Another answer is that loyalists were colonists who remained loyal to the British crown during the revolutionary war.
Honestly I think it's because the polls said clinton was gonna win by a landslide so I think people got comfortable. pollsters call people and ask who they're voting for and I don't think many people want to admit they're voting for someone like trump so the numbers were wrong.