The president always gets the other votes but when is he going to get the popular vote.
2007-02-13 11:51:06 · 14 answers · asked by snolovinhottie102 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Here is the answer and Bush DID win the popular vote regardless what these liars say. The top numbers are reversals the Bottom are deadlocks
Year Candidate Total Percentage Total Percentage
1876 Tilden 4,287,670 50.9% 184 50%
Hayes 4,035,924 47.9% 185 50%
Tilden + 251,746
1888 Cleveland 5,540,365, 48.6% 168 42%
Harrison 5,445,269 47.8% 233 58%
Cleveland + 95,096
1960 * Nixon 34,108,157 49.3% 219 41%
Kennedy 34,049,976 49.2% 303 59%
Nixon + 58,181
Electoral College Deadlock and Uses of House Contingency Procedure
Popular Total Electoral House Result
Year Candidate Vote Percentage Votes
1800 Jefferson 73 Jefferson winner
Burr 73 with 10
Adams 65 states to 4
Pinckney 64 for Burr after
Jay 1 36 ballots
1824 Adams 115,696 31.9 84 Adams winner
with 13 states
Jackson 152,933 42.2 99 to 7 for Jackson
Crawford 46,979 13.0 41 and 4 for Crawford
Clay 47,136 13.0 37 on 1st ballot
* See, Lawrence D. Longley and Neal R. Peirce in "The Elecotral Collge Primer" as well as Congresssional Quarterly Weekly
2007-02-13 12:01:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would add that Vice President Al Gore came in second in the electoral vote, but received 543,816 more popular votes than Bush. Percentage figures listed are somewhat misleading because many time there are third party candidates. That hadn't happened since 1888!.
In the elections of 1824, 1876, 1888, and 2000, the candidate who received a plurality of the popular vote did not become president. The 1824 election was eventually decided by Congress and thus distinct from the last three which were decided without.
2007-02-13 12:19:16 · answer #2 · answered by Middleclassandnotquiet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the most part, the candidate who wins the popular vote also wins in the Electoral College. But twice in our history, that was not the case.
In 1876, Democrat Samuel Tilden received about 250,000 more popular votes than Republican Rutherford B. Hayes. But Hayes won the election, 185 electoral votes to Tilden's 184 after a special electoral commission looking into charges of fraud, awarded Hayes 19 disputed electoral votes.
In 1888, Democrat Grover Cleveland received 91,000 more popular votes than Republican Benjamin Harrison, but Harrison won in the Electoral College, 233-168.
In those days there were fewer states, hence the smaller electoral vote total
2007-02-13 12:01:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If a president gets 52% of the votes, but only 50% of the population vote, it means he has got 26% of the popular vote.
No president in modern times has been elected by a majority of the population.
2007-02-13 12:00:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
1824 Adams vs Jackson
1876 Hayes vs Tilden
and 1888 Harrison vs Cleveland
Those are 3. And no Bush did not have more of the popular vote then Gore did.
2007-02-13 12:17:45 · answer #5 · answered by cornholingmidgets2 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here is a list of all the men elected U.S. President since 1900 who did not receive a majority of the popular vote. Point this out the next time some insufferable Gore supporter demonstrates his/her ignorance of the electoral process. The percentage indicates the percentage of the popular vote received by the winner that year.
1912 Woodrow Wilson 41.84%
1916 Woodrow Wilson 49.24%
1948 Harry Truman 49.55%
1960 John Kennedy 49.72%
1968 Richard Nixon 43.42%
1992 Bill Clinton 43.01%
1996 Bill Clinton 49.24%
2000 George W. Bush 47.87%
Source:
http://www.uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/frametextj.html
2007-02-13 11:56:26 · answer #6 · answered by oklatom 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Other than 2000?
2007-02-13 11:53:25 · answer #7 · answered by Vaughn 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Aside from George Bush in 2000, there were a few others. John Quincy Adams, for one.
2007-02-16 17:12:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our President Bush....Twice
2007-02-13 19:41:21 · answer #9 · answered by Chris B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bu$h got in with out the popular vote.
2007-02-13 11:54:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋