Did barack obama win the popular vote?

Barack Obama earned the necessary amount of Electoral College votes for reelection shortly before midnight. Many are still curious how the popular vote ends up. Obama seems poised to win that too in 2012, though it may take some time before that's official. read more

The 2000 election was the most recent when the candidate who received the greatest number of electoral votes, and thus won the presidency, didn’t win the popular vote. But this scenario has played out in our nation’s history before. read more

He added that Obama was the only president since Dwight Eisenhower to win over 51 percent of the popular vote in both his first election and re-election, suggesting he was a better candidate than most modern presidents in history. read more