Believe or not there are plenty of dorks in the world still pouring over the numbers from the election. The leading dork is Nate Silver over at fivethirtyeight.com. He has recently broke down Obama's vote total as a precent of total population in an attempt to compare for scale of victory. The results are quite impressive for Obama and his supporters. It appears that Obama's vote total was roughly 22% only to be beaten by Reagen (in his reelection bid of 1984). I have post previously that Eisenhower was the only real first term to securing a higher percentage of the vote.
http://mysteryj.blogspot.com/2008/11/few-notes-from-history.htmlUsing this comarison carries a number of issues to be aware of. Through the years the voting base has expanded. African Americans got the vote in the late 1870's, Women, then African Americans got true access to the ballot box (especially in the south), then 18 - 20 years old got the vote.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/population-and-popular-vote.html
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