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19. Now, President Obama has only been beaten by his previous popular vote

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 07:03 PM

Nov 2012

record.

Barack Obama received the most popular votes, over 65 million, in 2008. The previous record for most popular votes was held by George W. Bush, who received over 62 million votes in 2004. Prior to that the record was Ronald Reagan's 54 million in 1984.

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62,065,873!!! Obama Passes Bush's 2004 Total Vote [View all] alcibiades_mystery Nov 2012 OP

Sadly, the percentages stayed the same democrattotheend Nov 2012 #1

I just realized that Obama's 2008 vote total was the highest ever democrattotheend Nov 2012 #2

Excellent! CakeGrrl Nov 2012 #3

Obama's up to 62,088,847 now :) Tx4obama Nov 2012 #4

Where are you finding the newest numbers? Please :-) Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #7

Here ya go, a couple links below Tx4obama Nov 2012 #11

how many for Rmoney? NMDemDist2 Nov 2012 #5

Currently? alcibiades_mystery Nov 2012 #14

Awesome! Nerdette Nov 2012 #6

Where are you finding the newest numbers? ... ANSWER ... LA Kings Fan Nov 2012 #8

Here are the two links I'm watching, below Tx4obama Nov 2012 #10

And he didn't even have to start a war in order to get them. Aristus Nov 2012 #9

It's frightening to think that 62,040,610 people voted for Bush. eyewall Nov 2012 #12

To me, it's even more frightening that 59 million would vote for Rmoney mountain grammy Nov 2012 #13

outstanding demmis19566ie Nov 2012 #15

Kerry ran the race the media pretended Romney was running. ProSense Nov 2012 #16

K & R Scurrilous Nov 2012 #17

This Phentex Nov 2012 #18