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.
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Harry Truman won the 1948 presidential election defeating Thomas Dewey. In the 1948 presidential election Democratic Party candidate Harry Truman received 303 electoral votes, Republican Party candidate Thomas Dewey received 189 electoral votes, and Dixiecrat Party candidate Strom Thurmond received 39 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Truman 24,179,345, Dewey 21,991,291, and Thurmond 1,169,021. Progressive Party candidate Henry A. Wallace received 1,157,172 popular votes for President, but no electoral votes.
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because no one candidate is certain to win the popular vote there
Republican candidate William McKinley received 36 electoral votes from New York in 1896 and 1900.
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It is an example of the coattail effect, or many people of a party being elected as a result of one popular candidate.
The Republican Party is a political party in Guam affiliated with the United States Republican Party. At the gubernatorial elections of the fifth of November 2002, its candidate Felix Camacho won 55.2% of popular vote and became governor. ...
Initially Lyndon Johnson sought re-election but he realized that that was not popular so he had Hubert Humphrey run. Bobby Kennedy got into the race late. Richard Nixon was the Republican candidate.
John C. Breckinridge was the Democratic Candidate. Abraham Lincoln was the Republican Candidate
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.
Initially Lyndon Johnson sought re-election but he realized that that was not popular so he had Hubert Humphrey run. Bobby Kennedy got into the race late. Richard Nixon was the Republican candidate.