http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-nickolas">Mark Nickolas
Popular Vote v. Electoral College(Why The Media Badly Needs A History Lesson)
Posted August 7, 2008 | 01:51 PM (EST)
Despite Barack Obama's (D) amazingly consistent lead throughout the general election over John McCain (R), the talking heads on cable television returned to their incessant bloviating over whether Obama should be leading by more than just five points over McCain. It's really painful to watch these fools who don't bother to pay attention to history to understand how a five-point popular vote victory almost always translates when it comes to the only metric that matters -- the Electoral College. (Hint: landslide)
So, rather than expect that someone will take a peek at historical data, I figured I'd go ahead and do it myself.
Below are the results from the last 20 presidential elections, listing the Electoral Vote margin by the winner over the loser (or second place finisher), as well as the popular vote margin.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-nickolas/popular-vote-v-electoral_b_117525.html">Full article here
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