Mike Huckabee said tonight that he was "pretty sure that Sarah Palin recieved more votes when she was elected mayor of Wasilla then Joe Biden did in the entire Democratic Primary."
Well, sir, you are incorrect, the records of the city of Wasilla show that she won the mayorship in 1996 by only 651 votes.
Source is to be found by clicking "City Documents - Recently Requested - Mayor Palin and then clicking on any of the pdfs relating to elections:
http://www.cityofwasilla.com/index.aspx?page=136
It's impossible to know for sure how many individual votes Biden received in a caucus but by looking at the percentage of delegates, one can make an estimate, and I think it is safe to say that 1% of the democratic voters in Iowa is more than 651 people. Furthermore, how many votes has Biden received in his senate campaigns in Delaware?
In the last senatorial election in Delaware (2002) Joe Biden received 135,253 votes, or 58.22% of the vote.
Source:
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=10&year=2002&f=0&off=3&elect=0
So let's take a look at Sarah Palin's last political race. It has been stated on numerous occasions that Sarah Palin "blew everyone away" in the 2006 Alaskan Gubernatorial race, when in fact she recieved 114,697 votes, less than 50% of the popular vote (48.83 to be precise). That's less total vote and percentage of the vote than Joe Biden.
Source:
http://www.elections.alaska.gov/06general/data/results.pdf
Republicans, please do some research before smearing people.
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