Bush received 62,028,285 popular votes in 2004.
27,175,754. He got 38.5% of popular votes.
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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.
Barack Obama won the Popular Vote in the 2008 Presidential Election by about 8,500,000 votes.
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.
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.
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popular vote
Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate John McCain. In the 2008 presidential election Barack Obama received 365 electoral votes and John McCain received 173 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Obama 69,297,997 and McCain 59,597,520.