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How many vote did Obama win by?
He won with 52.9% of the popular vote compared to John McCain's 45.7% and a margin of 9.5 million votes. He also won about 2/3 of the electoral vote and carried 9 states that had been carried by Bush...
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If you win the popular vote in a state you get how many of the votes?
In a Presidential election nowadays, winning the popular vote in a state is the first step in getting "Electoral College" (E.C.) votes.
State legislatures now use two ways of converting their...
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How many votes did Democrats win in Alabama?
In the 2008 election, the Democratic candidate Barack Obama won 0 electoral votes, with only 813,479 votes. Republican John McCain won all 9 of Alabama's electoral votes. The 2012 election has not...
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How many votes to win the presidential election?
Electoral Votes.
In the race for president, the winner of the popular vote in each state wins all the electoral votes in that state (except in Maine and Nebraska). There are 538 total electoral votes...
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How many votes does a candidate need to win?
Traditionally it is thought to be half plus one vote, a Majority.The truth is in most elections that the candidate with the most votes wins.