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Originally posted by theking
Even though it is not officially final...President Bush appears to have been elected President by winning in the overwhelming majority of the States and with a larger popular vote than Al Gore had and set a record by receiving the largest number of votes cast for a Presidential nominee in the history of the United States.
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You are an idiot. Winning incumbants win by more than 3% and a few elecotral votes. I don't see how that is "overwhelmingly". WOW he got more votes than any president. Um duh we have more people in this country now. Kind of hard for Lincoln to get 50 million votes when the US had only 30 million people total and half the country left the union and women and blacks couldn't vote.
Past winning incumbants. Bush is weak.
1996 Clinton beat Dole by 8.2 million
1984 Reagan beat Mondale by 17 million
1972 Nixon beat Humphrey by 18 million
1964 LBJ beat Goldwater by 16 million
1956 Ike beat Stevenson by 9.5 million
1948 Truman beat Dewey 2.2 million, but less than 49 million voted.
1944 FDR beats Dewey by 3.6 million, less than 48 million voted
1940 FDR beats Willkie by 4.9 million, less than 50 million voted
1936 FDR beats Landon by 11.1 million, less than 46 million voted
1924 Coolidge beats Davis by 7.5 million, less than 29 million voted
I could go on and on.........