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popular election
Means they just won an election by a landslide.
()in the US) By popular election.
That is known as a recall election.
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Barack Obama won the Popular Vote in the 2008 Presidential Election by about 8,500,000 votes.
Run-Off
west Virginia
popular
1824, Andrew Jackson lost to John Qunicy Adams. Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but lost the election.
Lincoln won the election in 1860 without the majority of the popular vote. He won 40% of the popular vote, and 180 out of 303 electoral votes.
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