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Obama’s Margin of Victory is Now Bigger than Both of George W. Bush’s Wins

President Obama’s popular margin of victory is bigger than both of George W. Bush’s election wins in 2000 and 2004.

According to the numbers compiled by David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report, President Obama now leads Mitt Romney 50.81%-47.48% in the popular vote. President Obama’s popular vote margin is now bigger than both of the last two successful Republican presidential elections. In 2000, George W. Bush lost the popular vote to Al Gore, 48.38%-47.87%. In 2004, George W. Bush defeated John Kerry in the popular vote, 50.73%-48.27%. Obama is currently posting the biggest margin of victory since Bill Clinton beat Bob Dole, 49.24%-40.71% in 1996.

What was supposed to be a nail biter of an election turned out to be only the 13th closest election in US history. Obama’s margin of victory was bigger than four other modern era (since 1952) winning candidates. George W. Bush (2000 & 2004), Jimmy Carter (1976), and Richard Nixon (1968) all had smaller margins of victory than Obama did.

This means that the bluster coming from the right about President Obama not having a mandate is nothing more than political hot air. Due to the fact that many of the yet to be counted ballots are in New York and California, President Obama’s margin of victory is expected to grow. http://www.politicususa.com/obamas-margin-victory-bigger-george-w-bush
s-wins.html virtue of rounding, Romney’s share of the popular vote will be recorded here and elsewhere as 47 percent, so long as it doesn’t rise above 47.5 percent again.

Romney’s vote share will actually head more toward 47 percent flat — 47.1 percent or 47.2 percent — because many of the outstanding ballots in the presidential race come from California and New York, which both voted for Obama by a large margin. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/26/romneys-fina
l-share-of-the-vote-you-guessed-it-47-percent/?wprss=rss_politics current vote total has Mr. Obama winning just under 65 million votes nationwide, while Republican Mitt Romney won 60.5 million.

That translates into 50.88% of the popular vote for the president. Mr. Romney is at 47.4%–which happens to round down to that same 47% number that got him into so much trouble in the campaign’s latter stages, when a secretly recorded tape of remarks at a fundraiser showed him saying 47% of Americans wouldn’t vote for him because they didn’t pay taxes and looked to the government for help.

Mr. Obama’s 50.88% of the vote is just above the 50.7% George W. Bush took in winning re-election in 2004, and his margin of victory of just over four million votes surpasses the Bush margin of just over three million votes.

As a footnote: Mr. Obama’s margin of victory may well have been larger if not for Hurricane Sandy. The hurricane’s aftermath significantly suppressed turnout in New York and New Jersey, both blue states in presidential politics. In New York, turnout fell 17.08% from 2008, while in New Jersey it was down 7.68%.As a footnote: Mr. Obama’s margin of victory may well have been larger if not for Hurricane Sandy. The hurricane’s aftermath significantly suppressed turnout in New York and New Jersey, both blue states in presidential politics. In New York, turnout fell 17.08% from 2008, while in New Jersey it was down 7.68%.

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