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In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote.
0–9. 1936 United States presidential election; 1941 Philippine general election; 1946 Antiguan general election; 1951 Antiguan general election; 1956 Antiguan general election
Ronald Reagan won 54 million votes in his landslide election in 1984 — when the country had 100 million fewer people than it does now. ... of the popular vote of any presidential contender in US ...
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
Following the landslide defeat of former president Herbert Hoover at the previous presidential election in 1932, combined with devastating congressional losses that year, the Republican Party was largely seen as rudderless. In truth, Hoover maintained control of the party machinery and was hopeful of making a comeback, but any such hopes were ...
Just as no two presidential elections are quite alike, so it is with polling failures. When they fail, polls fail each in their own way. Should that pattern hold, the unanticipated rout of 1980 ...
American history was changed forever in November 2016 when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went head-to-head in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Trump took 30 states as the Republican ...
As he had served less than two years of President Kennedy's term, Johnson was constitutionally eligible for election to a second full term in the 1968 presidential election. [ 318 ] [ 319 ] Despite Johnson's growing unpopularity, conventional wisdom held that it would be impossible to deny re-nomination to a sitting president. [ 320 ]