President Barack Obama has a definite mandate. Simply look at the table below. No other President has come close in vote total or percentage of population. I believe empirically that the 0.47% Reagan advantage is statistically insignificant as our population numbers are much better now than then and Reagan’s %population would less given the likely larger population.
It is imperative that Liberals and Progressive keep the fire under Obama and force him to commit to the promises he made on health care, taxes, and foreign policy. We cannot allow him to go Republican Lite like Clinton did. REMEMBER, though Clinton had a sound economy, the deregulation he allowed to occur which Bush continued was the genesis of our economic & health care catastrophe.
QUOTE: From FiveThirtyEight.com
In response to our post from earlier this week on the size and scale of Barack Obama’s popular vote victory, several readers wrote in to ask how Barack Obama’s popular vote total ranks as a share of the United States population at the time of his election.
Obama has received at least 68,724,397 popular votes for the Presidency. I say “at least” because they’re still counting in California and several other states, and so Obama’s total should wind up comfortably over 69 million; 70 million appears unlikely, but is not entirely out of the question.
This total represents 22.62 percent of the Census Bureau’s 2008 estimate of United States population, which was 303,824,640. That figure doesn’t sound that impressive at first glance — fewer than one in four Americans actually voted for Barack Obama — but it’s actually the second-highest percentage ever, trailing only Ronald Reagan in 1984:
FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: The Population and the Popular Vote
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