Federal Elections 2008: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate, and

[Bradley in DC]

http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2008/federalelections2008.shtml

[TastyWheat]

Isn't there a publication that shows votes for President divided by district?

[Standing Like A Rock]

What is up with the presidential election stuff. It does not give the REAL results. It displays popular votes instead.

[Bradley in DC]

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/08/fec-releases-official-popular-vote-count-from-2008-presidential-election/#more-9349

FEC releases official popular vote count from 2008 presidential election
August 9th, 2009 · 10 Comments

The Federal Election Commission has released its “2008 presidential popular vote summary for all candidates listed on at least one state ballot.” The results:

Barack Obama (Democrat) 69,498,516 [52.93%]
John McCain (Republican) 59,948,323 [45.65%]
Ralph Nader (Independent, Peace and Freedom) 739,034 [0.56%]
Bob Barr (Libertarian) 523,715 [0.40%]
Chuck Baldwin (Constitution/Reform/U.S. Taxpayers) 199,750 [0.15%]
Cynthia McKinney (Green, Independent, Mountain) 161,797 [0.12%]
Write-In (Miscellaneous) 112,597 [0.09%]
Alan Keyes (America’s Independent) 47,746 [0.04%]
Ron Paul (Constitution, Louisiana Taxpayers) 42,426 [0.03%]
Gloria La Riva (Socialism and Liberation) 6,818 [0.01%]
Brian Moore (Liberty Union, Socialist) 6,538
None of These Candidates [Nevada only] 6,267
Róger Calero (Socialist Workers) 5,151
Richard Duncan (Independent) 3,905
James Harris (Socialist Workers) 2,424
Charles Jay (Boston Tea Party/Independent) 2,422
John Joseph Polachek (New) 1,149
Frank Edward McEnulty (Unaffiliated) 829
Jeffrey J. Wamboldt (Independent) 764
Thomas Robert Stevens (Objectivist) 755
Gene C. Amondson (Prohibition) 653
Jeffrey “Jeff” Boss (Vote Here) 639
George Phillies (Libertarian) 531
Ted Weill (Reform) 481
Jonathan E. Allen (Heartquake ‘08) 480
Bradford Lyttle (U.S. Pacifist) 110The Hill reports on its website that among the “tens of thousands of votes cast for write-in candidates, ultra-fringe parties, and fictitious (or erroneous) contenders” were 43 write-in votes for Vermin Supreme, 19 for Bill Clinton, 11 for Mickey Mouse, nine for Santa Claus, seven for Donald Duck, and five each for “Jesus” and “Joe Plumber”.
Candidates receiving exactly one tallied write-in vote for president were Jose M. Aparicio, Theodis (Ted) Brown Sr., James R. Germalic, Ronald G. Hobbs, Charles Jay, Keith Russell Judd, Lou Kujawski, Curtis Montgomery, Reverend Mere Peace-MsMere, John Leroy Plemons, Michael Skok, David Jon Sponheim, and Shelley Renée Upchurch.

[Bradley in DC]

Coverage varies on the release of FEC 2008 election results

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/08/coverage-varies-on-the-release-of-fec-2008-election-results/

[Bradley in DC]

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/08/fec-releases-official-popular-vote-count-from-2008-presidential-election/

FEC releases official popular vote count from 2008 presidential election
August 9th, 2009 · 37 Comments

The Federal Election Commission has released its “2008 presidential popular vote summary for all candidates listed on at least one state ballot.” The results:

Barack Obama (Democrat) 69,498,516 [52.93%]
John McCain (Republican) 59,948,323 [45.65%]
Ralph Nader (Independent, Peace and Freedom) 739,034 [0.56%]
Bob Barr (Libertarian) 523,715 [0.40%]
Chuck Baldwin (Constitution/Reform/U.S. Taxpayers) 199,750 [0.15%]
Cynthia McKinney (Green, Independent, Mountain) 161,797 [0.12%]
Write-In (Miscellaneous) 112,597 [0.09%]
Alan Keyes (America’s Independent) 47,746 [0.04%]
Ron Paul (Constitution, Louisiana Taxpayers) 42,426 [0.03%]

Just for fun, here is what my analysis of the polls a month before the election was showing:

http://www.nolanchart.com/article5158.html

Barack Obama (D) 47.2% 57,722,555

John McCain (R) 42.8% 52,341,639

Ralph Nader (I) 2.5% 2,604,853

Bob Barr (L) 1.5% 1,757,358 The link is botched in the article, try here http://www.nolanchart.com/article5113.html

Cynthia McKinney (G) 0.9% 775,952

Chuck Baldwin (C) 0.1% 73,131