Who got more votes: Joe Biden in the 2008 Dem.Primary or Sarah Palin in the 2006 Alaska Gov. election ?

Question

For a direct comparison: Biden got 116,000 votes with 50%, Palin 114,000 votes with 48% for their 1st state wide elections as US Senator and Alaska governor, respectively. How's that?

Answer 1

Biden  The republicans lied as usual.

Answer 2

Palin received 48% of the votes in the 2006 Alaska govenor election

Estimated population of Alaska in 2006 was 670,053

Biden received 58% of the votes for Senator of Delaware in 2002

Population of Delaware in 2000:  783,600

Estimated population of Delaware in 2006:  853,476

Answer 3

Palin

Answer 4

Does it really matter?  

Answer 5

Since Alaska is in Hicks-vile, I am gonna go with Biden. (=

Answer 6

They said at the convention that Palin got more but they never bother to put a whole picture together. There are such great democrats that it is hard to compete. Who was Palin competing with Larry Craig? We don't have the full picture so it is meaningless. I did not vote for Biden I voted for Hillary. I love this guy & I am so happy he is the VP candidate. So out of context this question & that statement prooves nothing. If they are now going to look at popularity then they must also put the fact in that 2 months ago 9 republicans who are supposed to work with McCain announced they refused to attend the convention. They were scouring the streets trying to get people to attend with a goal of getting 10,000 people & even offering buses & had no success. So they don't want to get into a popularity contest with Obama/Biden

Answer 7

Palin got more votes as MAYOR than did Biden did running for President...he couldn't carry his own state

Answer 8

Percent of total, Sarah Palin.

Dems will point to raw numbers though, since they like to twist the facts.

If you had one election and there were 1000 voters and 900 of them voted for a candidate, they got 90% of the vote.

Meanwhile at another election there were 100,000 voters and 1,800 of them voted for a second candidate... Democrats would say, "SEE?  This candidate got twice as many votes!  That' means they were more popular."  (But the reality is, they got 1.8% of the vote.)

Typical Democrat spin, "FACT checking" from the left.

Answer 9

Not a fair comparison, Burnt.  

Answer 10

I think the question is moot

who will get the most votes in November is what is going to matter

more then what went down in the Primary...it is not a fair comparison

but most Democrats don't know the difference anyway

Answer 11

On a percentage basis or what?  And who has actually accomplished something in office?

Answer 12

Obama passed over the candidate that had 18 million votes for the guy that had 2% of the vote, that wasn't a sign of a true leader.

Answer 13

From what I’ve been hearing…

Gov. Sarah Palin received more votes.

Answer 14

Probably Biden since Alaska has a small population. What difference does it matter to the current Presidential race?  

Answer 15

who cares?

Answer 16

Biden in 26 contests had around 80,000 votes.

Palin got less than 1000 votes to get elected. Alaska may be large in territory but very small in population

Answer 17

Palin did with 115,000

Greysun the 1000 figure you're thinking of was from her run for Mayor.

Answer 18

Apples and oranges comparison.  Joe Biden wasn't runing in the Primary election.  

Answer 19

Joe Biden

Population of Delaware: 853,476

Population of Wasilla, AK: 9,780

Answer 20

Joe Biden received over 73,000 votes in 23 states.  I am not sure what Palin got but I doubt that it was equal to that.

Answer 21

Biden. But if you think that was the only lie that came out of that foolishness last night, I've got another bridge to nowhere to sell you...

Answer 22

Palin managed 20,000 people. Biden's staff is less than 25.

Answer 23

Joe Biden

Answer 24

wat?

first of all, use the right quote.

Second of all, wat?

Answer 25

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.