a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream) 2. Usually, reams. a large quantity: He has written reams of poetry.
2. Barack Obama has won more popular votes than any Democratic candidate for president in historyâexcept Barack Obama in 2008. 3. Barack Obama is the first Democratic president to win more than 50 percent of the popular vote in a re-election run since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944. 4. Barack Obama is the only Democratic candidate for president since FDR to twice win more than 50 percent of the national vote. 5. Barack Obama has, in both of his presidential runs, won a higher percentage of the national vote than any Democratic nominee since Lyndon Johnson in his 1964 landslide victory.
That, of course, is not always the case. Democratic President Bill Clinton left office with a relatively high approval rating in 2000, but his impeachment during a second term harmed the chances that his vice president, Al Gore, would succeed him. Republican George W. Bush narrowly won the White House in the 2000 election, though he lost the popular vote. President Barack Obama's sound approval rating may not be an indicator of Democrat Hillary Clinton's chances in 2016, either. The last time voters elected a Democrat to the White House after a president from the same party had just served a full term was in 1856, before the Civil War.