Keep an on eye on these players, and these numbers, in 2015: PEYTON MANNING, QB. 2,148: Passing yards needed to surpass Favreâs 71,838 and become the NFLâs career leader. Manning has 69,691 in his 17 NFL seasons.
Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama combined for an average 4.3 percentage point drop in voter participation from their first election to their second. Perhaps a turnout decline is to be expected for successfully reelected presidents.
Five presidents took office without winning the popular vote. In other words, they did not receive a plurality in terms of the popular vote. They were elected, instead, by the electoral college or in the case of John Quincy Adams by the House of Representatives after a tie in the electoral votes. George W. Bush who lost by 543,816 votes to Al Gore in the 2000 election.