"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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Now that it appears that George Bush has been re-elected with a true
majority of the popular vote (the first president to do so in 16 years),


And the highest popular vote in history,


Yes, but only because more people voted than ever before. The second
highest popular vote in history went to John Kerry.



surpassing even Reagan's the
second time around (that was the last time we had a president who got
more than 50 percent).


The last time we had a president who got more than 50 percent was 1988,
George H. W. Bush.