Which of the following statements about Barack Obama’s presidential election is LEAST accurate?
a. Ninety percent of the people who voted for his opponent were white.
b. Almost seventy percent of the people who voted for the first time in 2008 voted for Obama.
c. Despite winning a commanding majority of the popular vote, Obama won by only a small handful of electoral votes.
d. Obama was the first Democrat to win more than 51 percent of the popular vote in over forty years.
c. Despite winning a commanding majority of the popular vote, Obama won by only a small handful of electoral votes.
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