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Barack Obama won the Popular Vote in the 2008 Presidential Election by about 8,500,000 votes.
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A presidential election is one where citizens vote for the President. In this type of election, voters directly choose their preferred candidate for the position of President of their country. The candidate who receives the majority of the electoral votes or the popular votes (depending on the country's system) wins the election and becomes the President.
In a federal election in the United States, a candidate does not need to receive a majority of the popular votes to win. For example, in the Electoral College system used for presidential elections, a candidate only needs to secure a majority of electoral votes (at least 270 out of 538) to win. This means that a candidate can win the presidency by obtaining fewer than 50% of the popular vote, as seen in past elections.
The last time a Republican candidate won the popular vote in a presidential election was in 2004, when George W. Bush was re-elected for a second term.
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The election of the president is determined by a popular vote and by the electoral college. The presidential candidate needs a majority of electoral votes to win, and the electoral votes usually coincide with the popular vote (with the exception of the election of George W Bush in 2000)
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Eugene V. Debs, from Indiana, was the Socialist candidate in 1912. He won 5.99 % of the 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.