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.
Awarding Electoral Votes. All 50 states and the District of Columbia use one of two methods for awarding their electoral votes: The Winner-Take-All System. In 48 states and the District of Columbia, all electoral votes are awarded to the slate that receives the most popular votes in the state. When a candidate for president wins a state's popular vote, that party's slate of electors is elected. For example, Florida has 29 electoral votes.