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* In the November election, George W. Bush became the first Presidential candidate since 1988 to receive a majority of the popular vote.
* The nearly 59 million votes Bush earned are an all-time record.
* The percentage of the total vote won by George W. Bush (51.1 percent) was slightly higher than the average winning total (50.8) for all Presidents elected between 1968 and 2000.
* Bush's share of the vote was also larger than the fraction won by any Democrat over that same 36-year period:
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