only two candidates have ever gotten more than 60 million votes

[scheming daemons]

Barack Obama 2008 (69 million)

And

Barack Obama 2012 (62 million)

[elleng]

1. BRAVO!

[mountain grammy]

9. Sorry Powell didn't win that seat..

I donated to his campaign. Hope he runs again in 2014. Cantor should make an even bigger ass of himself by then.

[elleng]

10. Thanks, grammy.

Hoping the same, and fully EXPECT cancer to continue showing his ass.

[zbdent]

2. McCain got less votes than Bush43 ... and Romney got less votes than McCain ...

let's hope this trend continues ...

[WI_DEM]

3. Three--George W. Bush in 2004

62,040,610.

Sorry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2004

But Obama has gotten the two highest in history in terms of total popular vote numbers. When all is said and done Obama will end up with something more than 63 million votes in 2012.

[cthulu2016]

6. And Romney in a couple of days

If estimates of 126M total vote are even close to correct mitt will pass 60M

[WI_DEM]

17. That's correct so he will have gotten more votes than McCain.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. The population is growing

so it's only meaningful to talk about percentages.

[AnOhioan]

5. Shhh....no need to bring reality into it

[IDoMath]

14. Thank you for saving me the trouble. n/t

[geckosfeet]

7. Oh. Yeah.

[Iliyah]

8. FL still have not counted all and AZ refuse to and

in the red states they won't. Landslide to the people who are the givers!

CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CheapShotArtist]

11. I didn't know a guy with the same name as Obama ran for president before.

[DavidDvorkin]

12. Only two candidates have ever won the presidency with fewer than 15,000 votes!

George Washington

And

George Washington

[barbiegeek]

13. He beat Even Reagon?

Reagon had so many states I hope Obama beat him

[WI_DEM]

16. Reagan had the record for his time which was 55 million in 1984

[mzteaze]

15. Incredible

GREAT numbers!

[Downtown Hound]

18. Do you realize that going by popular vote alone, Dems have won the last 5 out of 6 elections?

And yes, I'm fully aware that Gore should have won the electoral vote in 2000 and I'm pretty sure that Kerry rightfully won the presidency in 2004 as well, but the bottom line is that if had we had fair elections, Dems would have won a minimum of 5 out of the last 6 presidential elections.

So pundits and teabaggers everywhere, can we finally put to rest the ridiculous notion that America is a center right country?