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Originally posted by Lil' Hannah
According to Wikipedia, Bush got 50.73% of the popular vote. George H.W. Bush got 53.4% in 1988. Reagan got 58.8% in 1984.
Clearly, he did not get the highest percentage of the popular vote in history.
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I don't think anyone is going to dispute this. But when people are attacked with petty one-liners simply because someone doesn't agree with them, they feel they have to respond in some way. BTW Lil'Hannah- that was not directed at you.
MY bottom line: The election was almost a year ago. I don't think it will make an ounce of difference now so there is no point arguing about it.
I'm sure there are tons of statistics that would have to be pulled comparing the number of voting-aged people now compared to the past, as well as the number of registered voters compared to the past, as well as the number of those registered who actually voted compared to the past.... And population changes taken into consideration to REALLY figure out the highest popular vote ever.
Regardless of population, highest popular vote is highest. I'm certainly not going to bother trying to figure out the statistics.
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