[Reeses]

If Obama gets 48 or 49% of the vote he will win.

Gore got 51% and lost so it's possible.

[Ancesthntr]

“Gore got 51% and lost so it’s possible. “

Not true. Go to http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/ for the 2000 results. Gore won by about 540,000 votes, but actually got 48.38% of the populare vote. Bush (of course) got more EVs with 47.87% of the popular vote.

Your point that it is possible to win the PV and lose the EV (and, therefore, the election) is taken and is correct. But please get the facts straight - it enhances your argument.

[Sooth2222]

In 2000, Bush received 47.9% of the popular vote and Gore received 48.4%.

Since the Civil War, there have been three Democrats who have won the White House with over 50% of the popular vote: FDR, LBJ and Jimmy Carter. Every other time Democrats won, it was with under 50%.

Just based on history, the odds are that if Hussein wins, it will be with less than 50%.

[j-damn]

*Gore got 51% and lost so it’s possible.*

No, he didn’t.

No one got over 50% of the national popular vote in 2000.

[ElkGroveDan]

Gore got 51% and lost so it's possible.

And Bill Clinton got 43% and won, so anything is possible. However my prediction still stands.