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.
Inducted in 1992, Tom Seaver holds the record for highest voting percentage at 98.8 percent.Jim McIsaac/Getty Images. Long shot though it was, Madduxâa first-balloter by any measureâat least seemed to stand a chance of getting checked off on every ballot turned in. Alas, we now know that will not be the case.