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.
Abraham Lincoln won 39.7% of the popular vote in the 1860 general election, a percentage that was significantly lower than the average of all elected presidents (52.15%). Abraham Lincoln's margin of victory in the popular vote was a fairly high 10.1% and he received approximately 474 k more votes than his leading competitor, John C. Breckinridge. In terms of electoral votes, Abraham Lincoln won with 180 electoral votes out of 303 electoral votes votes, or 59.4%.