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An October 22, 2008 Pew Research Center poll estimated 70% of registered voters believed journalists wanted Barack Obama to win the election, as opposed to 9% for John McCain. [144] Another Pew survey, conducted after the election, found that 67% of voters thought that the press fairly covered Obama, versus 30% who viewed the coverage as unfair.
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was the Democratic nominee, and Senator John McCain of Arizona was the Republican nominee. Incumbent President George W. Bush was ineligible for re-election per the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which limits a president to two terms, and incumbent Vice President Dick Cheney declined to run for the office.
Barack Obama: 46%: John McCain 42% USA Today/Gallup [338] May 1–3, 2008 Hillary Clinton 46% John McCain: 49%: 803 LV ±5% Barack Obama 47% John McCain: 48%: CBS News/New York Times [339] May 1–3, 2008 Hillary Clinton: 53%: John McCain 41% 601 RV Not reported Barack Obama: 51%: John McCain 40% Diageo/The Hotline/Financial Dynamics [340 ...
By November 19, McCain led Obama by 1,445,813–1,441,910 votes, [5] or approximately 0.14% of the total popular vote in Missouri. CNN called the state for McCain that day. [39] The 2008 election was only the second time in 104 years that it had not voted for the winner of the general election.
Obama won only 15 of Indiana's counties compared to 77 for McCain. [20] However those 15 counties make up 44% of the state's population. Obama carried the state largely by trouncing McCain in Marion County, home to increasingly Democratic Indianapolis, by over 106,000 votes. Kerry narrowly won Marion County in 2004; prior to that it last ...
Arizona was won by Republican nominee and native son John McCain with an 8.48% margin of victory over Democrat Barack Obama. McCain had served as United States Senator from the state since 1987, and enjoyed high approval ratings. Prior to the election, sixteen of seventeen news organizations considered this a state McCain would win, or a red state.
Former President Barack Obama is reflecting on the late GOP Sen. John McCain, his onetime rival for the White House, and a moment from the 2008 campaign that shows how McCain’s “character ...
This article provides line graphs and bar charts of scientific, nationwide public opinion polls that have been conducted relating to the 2008 United States presidential election. All graph data is taken from Nationwide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008 and Statewide opinion polling for the United States ...