H. Ross Perot.
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.
The highest percentage of nationwide popular votes in a 20th century U. S. Presidential election was the 61.05% cast for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. His opponent was U. S. Senator from Arizona Barry Goldwater.
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Barack Obama won the 2012 presidential election defeating Mitt Romney. In the 2012 presidential election Barack Obama received 332 electoral votes and Mitt Romney received 206 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Obama 65,446,032 and Romney 60,589,084.
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.
Stephen Douglas.
The 2012 presidential election popular vote totals were Barack Obama 65,446,032 and Mitt Romney 60,589,084.
There are many places where one can find voting results for the 2008 presidential election. One can find voting results of the 2008 presidential election at popular on the web sources such as CNN and NPR.
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