The Senator who got the most votes in Senate History

[Shira]

Question: Who is the senator who was elected by the highest number of votes in Senate history?

Answer: Barbara Boxer got 6,453,157 in 2004, which to my knowledge, is the highest number of votes by which a senator has ever been elected

[Sam Spade]

No sh*t.

This has been posted by jfern about a million times.

And I knew about it months before then.

Who cares?

[Shira]

No sh*t.

This has been posted by jfern about a million times.

And I knew about it months before then.

Who cares?

Notice that B.Boxer is the most hated senator (after T.Kennedy) by the extreme conservatives.

[AuH2O]

Notice that California is the most populous state in US history, byatch.

[MissCatholic]

why are you so rude to females?

[Joe Kakistocracy]

Big deal.  Boxer got 6.5 million votes, which equates to a 58% win.  In the same election, Mike Crapo of Idaho got a paltry 500,000 votes.  His percentage? 99%.

[Shira]

Notice that California is the most populous state in US history, byatch.

I did not intend to make any political point. I brought it just for fun and because B.Boxer drives the Conservatives crazy.

[minionofmidas]

Well, you've been successful.

[MissCatholic]

you go gurl!

[opebo]

Notice that California is the most populous state in US history, byatch.

I did not intend to make any political point. I brought it just for fun and because B.Boxer drives the Conservatives crazy.

Good for you Shira.  And it is also a good way to point out what is wrong with the Senate.

[Cashcow]

How many did Schumer get?

[Joe Kakistocracy]

Schumer got 4,769,824 votes, taking 71% of the vote.

[Alcon]

Big deal.  Boxer got 6.5 million votes, which equates to a 58% win.  In the same election, Mike Crapo of Idaho got a paltry 500,000 votes.  His percentage? 99%.

Well, to be fair, McWhatever (his opponent) screwed up his paperwork or something and ended up as a write-in. Due to Idaho's rather confusing write-in system (you have to put the blank ballot in the envelope and write on the envelope itself somewhere), McWhatever failed to get any votes in several counties. He would have probably received at least 20% - there may not be many of them, but many of Idaho's Democrats are very, very loyal to the party.

Boxer is an interesting statistic (she placed third nationally for vote received, behind Bush and Kerry) but what does it mean? She got 58% of the vote in the most populous state. I don't see the news here.

[WalterMitty]

6,453,157 californians are crazy.

[Joe Kakistocracy]

Another reason why this statistic about Boxer is stupid: 300,000 more Californians voted for Kerry for President.  In senatorial elections that run concurrently with presidential elections, incumbent senators (whose party tends to win the state's EVs) usually get way more than the presidential candidate.

[Shira]

Another reason why this statistic about Boxer is stupid: 300,000 more Californians voted for Kerry for President.  In senatorial elections that run concurrently with presidential elections, incumbent senators (whose party tends to win the state's EVs) usually get way more than the presidential candidate.

But the fact remains: No other senator got more than 6,453,157 votes during the whole history of the US Senate

[Beet]

Another reason why this statistic about Boxer is stupid: 300,000 more Californians voted for Kerry for President.  In senatorial elections that run concurrently with presidential elections, incumbent senators (whose party tends to win the state's EVs) usually get way more than the presidential candidate.

But the fact remains: No other senator got more than 6,453,157 votes during the whole history of the US Senate

Until 2006, then it'll be Feinstein unless she announces a shock retirement and Schwarzenegger is elected to the senate where he authors a bill that alows people born in Austria to become president and is then elected to the presidency. Then he'll not only have the most votes cast for senate, but the most votes of any senator cast for any office!

[All aboard the Carney-val]

6,453,157 californians are crazy.

And that includes 18% of CA's Bush voters.

[Rob]

That's the stupidest, most meaningless statistic I've ever seen.

[A18]

What senator got the largest percentage of the vote? Probably some stupid unopposed candidate. Well, which one that had an actual opponent?

[A18]

Oh, as long as we're doing brain dead trivia:

Question: Who is the president who received more votes than any other presidential candidate in the history of the United States?

Answer: George W. Bush got 62,040,610 votes, the largest total in American history.

[Gabu]

That's the stupidest, most meaningless statistic I've ever seen.

No, this is:

John Patrick got 1,848 votes in the 1998 Rhode Island Gubernatorial election.

[Gabu]

Oh, as long as we're doing brain dead trivia:

Question: Who is the president who received more votes than any other presidential candidate in the history of the United States?

Answer: George W. Bush got 62,040,610 votes, the largest total in American history.

Question: Who is the presidential candidate who received the second largest amount of votes in the history of the United States?

Answer: John Kerry got 59,028,111 votes, the second largest total in American history.

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Question: Who is the senator who was elected by the highest number of votes in Senate history?

Answer: Barbara Boxer got 6,453,157 in 2004, which to my knowledge, is the highest number of votes by which a senator has ever been elected

Your number is wrong, it's 6,947,021.   And it's the most votes that any politician has ever gotten in a non national race, not just Senator.

[A18]

You're not supposed to mock a mockery.