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U.S. House of Representatives (1999–2019) Chair of the House Budget Committee (2011–2015) Higher education. Miami University ; Paul Ryan of WI (born 1970) Opponent(s) Barack Obama : Electoral vote. Obama/Biden: 332 (61.7%) Romney/Ryan: 206 (38.3%) Popular vote. Obama/Biden: 65,915,795 (51.1%) Romney/Ryan: 60,933,504 (47.2%)
This is the electoral history of Barack Obama. Barack Obama served as the 44th president of the United States (2009–2017) and as a United States senator from Illinois (2005–2008). A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was first elected to the Illinois Senate in 1997 representing the 13th district, which covered much of the Chicago South Side.
In June 2008, Washington Post commentator Robert Novak blamed the policies of President George W. Bush for Republican defections to the Obama camp and suggested that Republicans Colin Powell and Chuck Hagel might soon declare their support for Obama. [11] In July 2008, African-American libertarian-conservative columnist Thomas Sowell criticized ...
Former President Donald Trump has started making a fictional claim about the political past of Nikki Haley, his remaining opponent for the Republican presidential nomination.
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.
The approach that served Obama so well in the past may not work against the modern GOP “Trump lost in 2020 to Obama’s former vice president, but even in that loss Trump got many more votes and ...
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.
Speaking from Huntington Place, the same convention center where mail ballots were counted in 2020 as Trump and his supporters sought to cast doubt on the state’s election results, Obama ...