Obama First President to Achieve 50+ Percent of Vote Twice Since Eisenhower

65.9 million

Number of votes a revised vote count found President Obama nationally won by, or 51.1% of the vote, against challenger Mitt Romney, who took 60.9 million votes and 47.2% of the total, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Obama is the first president to achieve that level of support in two elections since President Dwight D. Eisenhower was re-elected in 1956.

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