steven787 on 29 September 2008
| akuma587 said: I don't think there is really any chance we will see what happened with Bush in 2000, a split of the popular and electoral vote. The map just isn't playing out that way this year. |
This is the widest spread in popular vote between liberal and conservative since Reagen, if you consider Perot a conservative vote. I do.
RCP -
No toss ups Obama/Biden 301 McCain/Palin 237
2004 Bush/Cheney 286 Kerry/Edwards 252 (The polls were identical)
2000 Bush/Cheney 271 Gore/Lieberman 267
1996 Clinton/Gore 379 Dole/Kemp 159 (Remember Perot was still pretty big in 1996, and took a lot of votes from Dole.)
| William Jefferson Clinton | Democratic(a) | 47,402,357 | 49.2% | Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. | Tennessee | 379 |
| Robert Joseph Dole | Republican(b) | 39,198,755 | 40.7% | Jack French Kemp | New York | 159 |
| Henry Ross Perot | Reform |
8,085,402 | 8.4% |
I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.
