Popular Vote Trivia

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| Fri Dec. 5, 2008 9:26 AM PST

CrossingWallStreet.com has a neat catch.

Total Democratic Presidential Votes Since 1932: 745,407,082
Total Republican Presidential Votes Since 1932: 745,297,123

That difference, 109,959 votes out of 1.5 billion cast, is 0.00733 percent. Next time a conservative tells you we're a center-right country, tell them numbers exist. And they say we're pretty well split.

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