Obama Earns More Votes since 1996 than McCain since 1982!

[Phx_Dem]

This is pretty amazing . . . and embarrassing for McCain.

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/obama-leads-mccain-in-total-vo.html

Well, it turns out that since 1982, Barack Obama has earned more votes (21.6 million) than John McCain (19.5 million).

Here's the numbers:

Votes McCain has received in his career:
2008 (presidential primary), 9,840,746
2004 (senate), 1,505,372
2000 (presidential primary), 6,061,332
1998 (senate), 696,577
1992 (senate), 771,395
1986 (senate), 521,850
1984 (house), 162,418
1982 (house), 89,116
= 19,648,806 votes

Votes Obama has received in his career:
2008 (presidential primary), 17,869,542
2004 (senate), 3,597,456
2002 (state senate), 48,717
1998 (state senate), 45,486
1996 (state senate), unknown
= 21,561,201 votes

The bottom line is that more voters have evaluated, made a judgment, and cast their ballot in support of Obama than they have for McCain, despite the fact that McCain is 25 years older than Obama.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I am not surprised though. Even leaving the policies out of the picture for the moment

the charisma factor explains a lot.