Top popular vote totals:
1. Obama (D) 2008 65,834,626 (and counting)
2. Bush (R) 2004 62,040,610
3. Kerry (D) 2004 59,028,439
4. McCain (R) 2008 57,709,772 (and counting)
5. Reagan (R) 1984 54,455,472
The nation is growing you know, of course the turnout this year was nice, but the real list you should look at is that:
1. Lyndon Johnson (D) 1964 61.05%
2. Franklin Roosevelt (D) 1936 60.80%
3. Richard Nixon (R) 1972 60.67%
4. Warren Harding (R) 1920 60.32%
5. Ronald Reagan (R) 1984 58.77%
6. Herbert Hoover (R) 1928 58.21%
7. Franklin Roosevelt (D) 1932 57.41%
8. Dwight Eisenhower (R) 1956 57.37%
9. Theodore Roosevelt (R) 1904 56.42%
10.Andrew Jackson (D) 1828 55.93%
11.Ulysses Grant (R) 1872 55.58%
12.Dwight Eisenhower (R) 1952 55.18%
13.Abraham Lincoln (R) 1864 55.03%
14.Andrew Jackson (D) 1832 54.74%
15.Franklin Roosevelt (D) 1940 54.74%
16.Calvin Coolidge (R) 1924 54.04%
17.Franklin Roosevelt (D) 1944 53.39%
18.George Bush (R) 1988 53.37%
19.William H. Harrison (W) 1840 52.87%
20.Ulysses Grant (R) 1868 52.66%
21.Barack Obama (D) 2008 52.50% 
