Obama won the popular vote TWICE. And scored a huge Electoral victory. But keep telling yourself you almost had it. Originally Posted by Yssup RiderPoint of order, since the irrelevant popular vote keeps coming up:
http://www.cbsnews.com/election-results-2012/3.5 million votes out of 121,757,410 million total votes cast is not exactly a landslide in anyone's book.
B.OBAMA............Popular Vote:51%/ 62,615,406 - Electoral Votes 332
M.ROMNEY..........Popular Vote:48%/ 59,142,004 - Electoral Votes 206
The very relevant Electoral College votes paints a different picture, certainly.