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.
The all-time champion in most electoral votes won is, of course, Franklin Roosevelt, who handily won four presidential elections, cobbling together an impressive 1,876 total votes. In second is Richard Nixon, who got a large number of votes in three races: 1960, 1968 and 1972.