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Barack Obama John McCain Main article: United States presidential election, 2008 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 .
Blue states/districts went for Obama, red for McCain. Yellow states were won by either candidate by 5% or more. Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia and Iowa were won by Bush in 2004 but were won by Obama by a margin of more than 5% in 2008. States where the margin of victory was under 1% (26 electoral votes; 15 won by Obama, 11 by McCain):
King County, a thinly populated county near the Panhandle, gave McCain 92.64% of the vote to Obama's 4.91%, McCain's best margin in any county in the nation. Despite the expected loss, Obama improved substantially upon John Kerry's performance in 2004 , narrowing the margin of victory from 22.83% down to 11.77%.
Maps and electoral vote counts for the 2012 presidential election. Our latest estimate has Obama at 323 electoral votes and Romney at 191.
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In the end, Obama flipped Ohio into the Democratic column. Obama's 2,940,044 votes are the most received by a Democratic presidential candidate in the state's history. Despite this fact, Obama became the first Democrat ever to win the White House without carrying Pike County. On the other hand, Obama became the first Democrat to win Hamilton ...
Maps and electoral vote counts for the 2012 presidential election. Our latest estimate has Obama at 281 electoral votes and Romney at 191.
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 ...