Note: I sent this out in an email also ;0)
Hog
Bush First President in 16 Years to Win Popular Majority
a Little Trivia for you All...
If early Wednesday morning numbers hold, George W. Bush's election victory will make him the first American president since 1988 to win majorities in both the popular vote and the Electoral College, a development that will certainly enhance his second term mandate to govern.
In 2000, Bush barely won the hotly contested Florida vote, handing him a slender Electoral College victory. But he lost the popular vote nationwide by a margin of 500,000.
In 1996, Bush's predecessor Bill Clinton was reelected by winning the Electoral College vote handily, but only managed to get 49 percent of the popular vote against opponents Bob Dole and Ross Perot.
In 1992, Clinton got even less popular vote support, garnering a mere 43 percent. But it was enough to hand him an Electoral College victory in a divided field that included Perot and Bush's father.
First elected in 1988, George H.W. Bush was the last president to win both the popular and Electoral College vote, when he defeated Michael Dukakis 54 to 46 percent and won the Electoral College 426 to 112.
Like Father Like Son!!!!
and a little salt to any wounds.... GWB is the President not the Resident ;0)
Like it or Lump it... the 2004 election polls shows America's voice!!!
God Bless America!!!! GWB!!!! And Our Men and Women in Service for this Great Nation!!!!
Hog
