With Florida reporting new vote totals today, including the Palm Beach County absentee votes, Obama has 50.01% of the vote in Florida. There are still some provisionals and military absentees to count, but provisionals are likely to outnumber military absentees and swing the numbers marginally further in Obama's favor. As a result, it is safe to say that Obama will win more than 50% of the vote in Florida--and also therefore that, in every state, the winning candidate will have won more than 50% of the vote. I'm not sure when the last time this happened was, but it has to have been 1988 at the most recent, and possibly much longer ago. It is particularly interesting that this has happened in an election where two of the minor parties, the Libertarians and the Greens, ran their most highly qualified candidates, possibly ever, and at a time when significant noise was made about potential defectors from one or both parties.
Thoughts?
(To verify Obama is at 50.01% in Florida:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/10/obama-wins-florida-cnn-projects/?hpt=hp_t2)
