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The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the ...
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Popular vote totals from Federal Elections 2008. Obama received more votes than any candidate in history. The prior record, about 62 million, was set in 2004 by George W. Bush
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On November 4, 2008, after a campaign that lasted nearly two years, Americans elected Illinois senator Barack Obama their 44th president. The result was historic, as Obama, a first-term U.S. senator, became, when he was inaugurated on January 20, 2009, the country’s first African American president.
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John McCain won four of the state's electoral votes, with Barack Obama winning one. Live election results and maps for the 2008 Presidential election, including electoral vote counts and...
Popular Vote Electoral Vote; Barack H. Obama: Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Democratic: 69,499,428: 52.86%: 365: 67.8%: John S. McCain, III: Sarah H. Palin: Republican: 59,950,323: 45.60%: 173: 32.2%: Ralph Nader: Matt Gonzalez: Independent: 739,278: 0.56%: 0: 0.0%: Bob Barr: Wayne Allyn Root: Libertarian: 523,433: 0.40%: 0: 0.0%: Other - - 761,243: 0 ...
Overall, 131 million people voted in 2008, a turnout increase of about 5 mil-lion people since 2004. During this same 4-year period, the voting-age citizen population in the United States increased by roughly 9 million people.3 In 2008, 71 percent of voting-age citi-zens were registered to vote, a decrease compared to the 72 percent who were ...
Nov 5, 2008 · By Tom Rosentiel. Barack Obama captured the White House on the strength of a substantial electoral shift toward the Democratic Party and by winning a number of key groups in the middle of the electorate. Overall, 39% of voters were Democrats while 32% were Republicans — a dramatic shift from 2004 when the electorate was evenly divided.