Obama popular vote margin largest ever

[Tribetime]

for a non incumbant. It stands at 9,124,522 and climbing which is the 6th largest ever. It's about halfway down on 538

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Nate Silver Rocks

Largest Popular Vote Margin

Year Candidate Inc? Margin
1972 Nixon Yes 17,995,488
1964 Johnson Yes 17,951,287
1984 Reagan Yes 16,678,120
1936 Roosevelt Yes 11,070,786
1956 Eisenhower Yes 9,551,152
2008 Obama No 9,124,522*
1980 Reagan No 8,423,115
1996 Clinton Yes 8,201,370
1924 Coolidge Yes 7,377,547
1988 Bush No 7,077,121
* Provisional

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

9. Nate is the Golden Geek of number crunching

both in baseball and politics. The guy is a freaking genius.

[Clio the Leo]

2. Gives him something to strive for, huh? NT

[Tribetime]

3. I'm all for that...can they bring back Palin

[Clio the Leo]

5. NO! I CANNOT ENDURE THAT WOMAN!!!

I was FINALLY able to watch her RNC speech again after election night. That was NOT fun AT ALL. Get that twit OFF of my screen!

[Tribetime]

6. I hear you loud and clear.

[ClarkUSA]

4. Schadenfruende Alert!!

And they said he couldn't win.... :)

[Crunchy Frog]

7. I still recall the dire predictions of McGovern like defeat

that I was reading on this board a few months ago. I wonder where all those posters have gone. :shrug:

[ClarkUSA]

8. Heh heh... I fondly recall the doomsday warnings about racist white and Hispanic voters.

As for where all those posters have gone... most of them are still here (in their original form or as sockpuppets) screaming
"Hillary Hater!" at every imagined slight or real criticism of the Clintons. Others are fulminating at PUMA websites. And still
others seem to suffer from selective amnesia and deny ever saying anything damning about President-Elect Obama. ;)

:woohoo: Obama Is 44! :party: