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sabra

(30,404 posts) Wed Nov 4, 2020, 12:30 PM Nov 2020

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Biden has now received more votes for president than any other candidate in U.S. history

Source: Yahoo News

Former Vice President Joe Biden has now received more votes for president than any other candidate in U.S. election history, officially surpassing former President Barack Obama's 2008 popular vote numbers around 8 a.m. ET on Wednesday.

The news follows reports on Tuesday night that the 2020 election was shaping up to have the highest voter turnout since 1908, when 65 percent of eligible Americans voted, The New York Times reports. The country was on track for around 160 million votes this year, which would put the eligible turnout rate at around 67 percent.

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Biden has now received more votes for president than any other candidate in U.S. history (Original Post) sabra Nov 2020 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author lapucelle Nov 2020 #1

Another reason VA_Jill Nov 2020 #2

+1000 LastLiberal in PalmSprings Nov 2020 #3

Wow! Biden had 70,353,381 .. but it's Cha Nov 2020 #4

More than FDR? How can that be? Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2020 #5

US population today is 2x+ the size it was when FDR was president nt Fresh_Start Nov 2020 #7

OPs link is bad. Here is an updated one tccturtle Nov 2020 #6

Electoral college is clearly screwing us badly. LisaL Nov 2020 #8

And Trump has received the 2nd highest numbers of votes former9thward Nov 2020 #9

Response to sabra (Original post)

lapucelle This message was self-deleted by its author.

VA_Jill

(10,045 posts)

2. Another reason

Reply to sabra (Original post)

Wed Nov 4, 2020, 01:48 PM

Nov 2020

that the EC is BS.

LastLiberal in PalmSprings

(12,601 posts)

3. +1000

Reply to VA_Jill (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 4, 2020, 03:00 PM

Nov 2020

Time to amend the Constitution.

Cha

(298,049 posts)

4. Wow! Biden had 70,353,381 .. but it's

Reply to sabra (Original post)

Wed Nov 4, 2020, 03:30 PM

Nov 2020

changing fast.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,358 posts)

5. More than FDR? How can that be?

Reply to sabra (Original post)

Wed Nov 4, 2020, 04:04 PM

Nov 2020

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)

7. US population today is 2x+ the size it was when FDR was president nt

Reply to Hassin Bin Sober (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 5, 2020, 09:30 AM

Nov 2020

nt

tccturtle

(42 posts)

6. OPs link is bad. Here is an updated one

Reply to sabra (Original post)

Wed Nov 4, 2020, 07:19 PM

Nov 2020

https://news.yahoo.com/biden-passes-obama-most-votes-190552923.html

LisaL

(44,985 posts)

8. Electoral college is clearly screwing us badly.

Reply to sabra (Original post)

Thu Nov 5, 2020, 09:41 AM

Nov 2020

We are going to win popular vote by millions, and it doesn't matter. I don't know of any other country that does what we do.

former9thward

(32,154 posts)

9. And Trump has received the 2nd highest numbers of votes

Reply to sabra (Original post)

Thu Nov 5, 2020, 08:13 PM

Nov 2020

of anyone that has run. It is called population growth.

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