Bush received 62,028,285 popular votes in 2004.
27,175,754. He got 38.5% of popular votes.
yes
45%
A disadvantage of the presidential election could be that the person with the most popular votes could lose the election because he or she had less electoral votes.
About 5.5 million votes were cast in the 2008 Presidential election.
In the 2000 presidential election, the Green Party candidate (Ralph Nader) did not win any electoral votes. He did, however, win over 2.8 million popular votes. Unfortunately for the Green Party, this was only 2.7% of the popular vote, and would not qualify the party to receive matching federal campaign funds in the next presidential election.
Barack Obama won the Popular Vote in the 2008 Presidential Election by about 8,500,000 votes.
California cast its55 electoral votes for John Kerry in the 2004 election. The 2004 presidential election popular vote totals in California were John Kerry 6,745,485 and George W. Bush 5,509,826.
James Buchanan won the 1856 presidential election defeating John Freemont. In the 1856 presidential election James Buchanan received 174 electoral votes and John Freemont received 114 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Buchanan 1,836,072 and Freemont 1,342,345.
no
If a candidate does not receive 270 electoral votes in the presidential election, the decision goes to the House of Representatives to choose the president from the top three candidates with the most electoral votes.
popular vote