USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Obama’s total count of 69.5 million votes stood as the largest tally ever won by a presidential candidate until 2020, when this was surpassed by both major party candidates in a high-turnout election.

Detailed explanation-2: -The number of electors each state gets is equal to its total number of Senators and Representatives in Congress. A total of 538 electors form the Electoral College. Each elector casts one vote following the general election. The candidate who gets 270 votes or more wins.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ultimately, Bush won 271 electoral votes, one vote more than the 270-to-win majority, despite Gore receiving 543, 895 more votes (a margin of 0.52% of all votes cast).

Detailed explanation-4: -On November 4, 2008, Obama defeated the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, making him the President-elect and the first African American elected President. He was the third sitting U.S. Senator, after Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy, to be elected president.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kennedy won a 303 to 219 Electoral College victory, and he won the reported national popular vote by 112, 827, a margin of 0.17 percent.