Presidential Candidate Vice Presidential Candidate Political Party Popular Vote Electoral Vote Barack H. Obama Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Democratic 69,499,428 52.87% 365 67.8% John S. McCain, III Sarah H. Palin Republican 59,950,323 45.60% 173 32.2% Ralph Nader Matt Gonzalez Independent 739,278 0.56% 0 0.0% Bob Barr Wayne Allyn Root Libertarian 523,433 0.40% 0 0.0% Other (+) - - 750,660 0.57% 0 0.0%
Population within voting ages....233,000,000
none of the 133 million of us who didnt vote, know any less but probably a whole lot more, than the 125 million who voted to enable one largess of another.
2010 elections candidates spent a billion getting elected. new record...but they did not expand thier margins, the Non Voting Majority is a strong relative constant nationwide. Until at any given moment...we decide to take over and assign the debts to the voters who elected them. |