a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream) 2. Usually, reams. a large quantity: He has written reams of poetry.
2. Barack Obama has won more popular votes than any Democratic candidate for president in historyâexcept Barack Obama in 2008. 3. Barack Obama is the first Democratic president to win more than 50 percent of the popular vote in a re-election run since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944. 4. Barack Obama is the only Democratic candidate for president since FDR to twice win more than 50 percent of the national vote. 5. Barack Obama has, in both of his presidential runs, won a higher percentage of the national vote than any Democratic nominee since Lyndon Johnson in his 1964 landslide victory.
President Obama made history in 2008 as the first African American president in U.S. history. President Obama gives a keynote address during the Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library on the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas, USA, 10 April 2014. While whites and Hispanics are far more likely to describe Obama as mixed race, a strong majority of African Americans see him as black. And black voters voted in historically large numbers for Obama. He won 93 percent of the African American vote in 2012 and 95 percent among that group in 2008. Obama, for his part, struggled for much of his life in how to define himself racially with a Kansas-born white mother and a Kenyan father.