George Washington received 100% of the electoral votes and was unanimously elected President in 1789 and 1792.
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George Washington did not have a slogan. He is the only president to receive 100 percent of the electoral votes. In fact, he received 100 percent twice.
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Yes, he received all six of Nevada's electoral votes in the 2012 election. President Obama had 52.36 percent, and his challenger, Mitt Romney received 45.68 percent. (Mr. Obama's received 68,000 more votes than Mitt Romney did: the president had 531,373 while his challenger had 463,567.)
If no candidate for the presidency wins a simple majority (51%) of the total number of electoral votes, then the House of Representatives have the power to choose the President of the US. Each state gets one vote. The margin required to choose the president in the House is a majority of those voting. The only time this happened, in 1824, the representatives of some of the states could not agree on how to vote and so those states did not vote.
Only George Washington is credited with receiving 100% of the votes of the electoral college, in the elections of 1788-1789 and 1792.
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Yes. The final, official results of the 2012 presidential election showed President Obama winning the popular vote nationally with 65,899,660 tallies (or 51.1 percent) over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who received 60,932,152 (or 47.2 percent). Obama, who received 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206, won re-election by carrying 26 states and the District of Columbia. He needed 270 to retain the presidency. Obama became the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 to win back-to-back presidential elections with more than 51 percent of the popular vote.
When Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th US President, on November 6, 1860, He received 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote.
Abraham Lincoln won the election in 1860 with 39 percent of the vote. That was not uncommon in those days when several parties ran candidates in the national elections. Bill Clinton won the election of 1992 with 39 percent of the vote.