President Joe Biden Has Won the 2020 Election
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I guess the white man's ice is colder, congrats coli shill gangBiden surpasses Obama’s 2008 popular-vote total (with asterisks).
Biden surpasses Obama’s 2008 popular-vote total (with asterisks).
3:55 p.m. Nov. 4, 2020
By Maria Cramer
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Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. at a campaign drive-in event at Belle Isle Casino in Detroit on Oct. 31.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
While the outcome of the presidential race remains undecided, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has notched one clear milestone: He has collected more votes than his old boss Barack Obama did in 2008, to set a new record for the popular vote.
Powered by the enormous turnout, Mr. Biden has received more than 71 million votes, and still counting, nationwide, exceeding the 69,498,516 collected by Mr. Obama in another year with enormous voter enthusiasm that held the record until this year.
Democrats are likely to point to the vote total as evidence that they continue to represent the majority of the country in presidential elections. They have won the popular vote in every presidential election since 2000 with the exception of 2004.
But there are some caveats: The population of the country has grown since 2008 from 304 million to more than 330 million people in 2020.
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This means that Mr. Obama received the votes of a greater percentage of Americans — about 23 percent, to Mr. Biden’s 22 percent. Mr. Obama also drew a higher percentage of the country’s registered voters, 48 percent to Mr. Biden’s 45 percent.
While Mr. Obama was swept in with a clear majority of the popular vote, Mr. Biden, who served two terms as his vice president, is on track for a narrower margin in the nationwide results, reflecting a more divided electorate, said Rogers Smith, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania
“This was an extraordinary election that appears to have spurred one of the highest turnouts in a century,” he said. “That means that both candidates are going to receive larger vote totals than they would have in the past.”
Maria Cramer is a breaking news reporter on the Express Desk. @NYTimesCramer
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I liked Biden’s speech as he exuded a lot of confidence. But again, there is still so much in play here. Still thousands upon thousands of ballots to be counted. I just can’t get rid of this weird feeling as time goes on with this. If Biden holds strong on the Provisional ballots in Pennsylvania, then it’s game over. But if Trump manages to re-take Pennsylvania, then things start to get a bit more spooky...
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Now we can get a handle on a virus thats killing us disproportionately at a high clip and force these white terrorists back into the fringes of society where they belong
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What you expect? This administration is top 3 woat and we talking about since 1776 
Trump got more than obama too
Brad Piff
The Money & The Miles
that’s from earlier in the year
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The mooch is on CNN right now keeping his foot on trumps neck
he’ll still be on after the break.So Obama wasn't as popular as a president then we thought?
I think all these votes are sheisty.
Or maybe ....
The population has gone up?
or maybe ...
Increasing the ways that people can vote (mail, early) increases voter participation?
It has to be something.
Obama was VERY popular.
Hell the amount of votes Trump got are in a way a testament to Obama’s popularity. Trump had to bring out EVERY redneck, racist, and scum of the earth so that they could feel “powerful” again after eight years of a breh being in “charge”.
And now its the reverse. People coming out in droves to drive Trump and his band of heathens back to the sewers from which they came
Don't matter. He won Nevada. PA and GA are just icing on the cake man.
Lemon and Cuomo having a damn BALL on CNN right now
Feels like how Nas and Jungle were on Flex’s show celebrating after he beat Hov.
Feels like how Nas and Jungle were on Flex’s show celebrating after he beat Hov.