The official President Obama thread

[steven787]

fkusumot said:

numonex said:

Obama only won because 95 to 100% of registered African-Americans voted for him in the poor working class States of the USA. 40% of African-Americans were registered to vote.
In the rich areas, people primarily voted for McCain.
Obama received 51 million votes to McCain's 49 million votes in the US election.

Wrong. Obama currently has 63.7 million popular votes to John McCain's 56.3 million. Where is your god now?

 

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/

 

Obama: 53%: 64,030,409

McCain: 46%: 56,494,802

Holy Moly, that is quite a majority for a presidential election in the US.  Reagan won 58% in 1984, Johnson won 61% in 1964 but only Reagan in 1980 (50.7%) and Bush in 2004 won by >50% other than those two.