A measure is the section of a musical staff that comes between two barlines. Each measure satisfies the specified time signature o f the staff. For example, a song written in 4/4 time will hold four quarter note beats per measure. A song written in 3/4 time will hold three quarter note beats in each measure.
Andrew Jackson won the presidency in 1828 by a landslide, receiving a record 647,292 popular votes (56 percent) to 507,730 (44 percent) for the incumbent John Quincy Adams. John C. Calhoun won the vice presidency with 171 electoral votes to 83 for Richard Rush and 7 for William Smith.
In 2004, the 62,040,610 votes for President Bush broke the previous popular vote record, which had been held by President Reagan since 1984. In that election, the incumbent Reagan trounced Democratic nominee Walter Mondale in the popular vote and the Electoral College, 54,455,472 to 37,577,352 and 525-13 respectively.