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Obama ended up winning the popular vote by 3.85%
Friday, January 4, 2013 8:22 AM
KPO
Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.
Friday, January 4, 2013 10:19 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Saturday, January 5, 2013 7:53 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote: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-bushs-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-final-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%.
Quote:Final Tally Shows Obama First Since ’56 to Win 51% Twice Barack Obama is the first president in more than five decades to win at least 51 percent of the national popular vote twice, according to a revised vote count in New York eight weeks after the Nov. 6 election. State election officials submitted a final tally on Dec. 31 that added about 400,000 votes, most of them from provisional ballots in the Democratic stronghold of New York City that were counted late in part because of complications caused by Hurricane Sandy. The president nationally won 65.9 million votes -- or 51.1 percent -- against Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who took 60.9 million votes and 47.2 percent of the total cast, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Obama is the first president to achieve the 51 percent mark in two elections since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, who did it in 1952 and 1956, and the first Democrat to do so since Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four consecutive White House races. Roosevelt received 53.4 percent of the vote -- his lowest -- in his last race in 1944. In just four states -- Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia -- was the winning candidate’s margin of victory less than 5 percentage points, the smallest number of states below that threshold since 1984, when three states were within 5 points amid Reagan’s 18-point victory in the popular vote over Democrat Walter Mondale. The Nov. 6 results underscore challenges for Republicans as they seek an Electoral College majority in 2016 and beyond. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-03/final-tally-shows-obama-first-since-56-to-win-51-twice.html? Romney finishes with 47 percent of the presidential vote One of the major moments of the 2012 presidential election was Mitt Romney's now-infamous "47 percent" remarks. But, ah, does the world not work in strange and mysterious ways? The final presidential vote count was released Friday, and Romney received, wait for it, 47 percent of the popular vote (47.2 to be exact). If anything, it shows the cosmos has a sense of humor. http://now.msn.com/romney-got-47-percent-of-presidential-vote
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