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.
Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will secure the election tonight by winning 270 electoral votes. The 270 votes it takes to win the presidential election come from the 538 votes given to the country's 435 representatives, 100 senators, and three electors from the District of Columbia. The number of electoral votes that each state gets depends on how many members of Congress they have.