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Until the onset of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the unpopular Iraq War was a key issue during the campaign. John McCain supported the war while Barack Obama opposed it (Obama's early and strong opposition to the war helped him stand out against the other Democratic candidates during the primaries, as well as stand out to a war-weary ...
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 ...
May 25–28, 2008 44% 47% – Pew Research Center [3] 618 ±4.5% May 21–25, 2008 41% 54% – 5% Newsweek [4] 608 ±5% May 21–22, 2008 42% 50%: 8% Reuters/Zogby [5] – May 15–18, 2008 33% 59%: 8% Quinnipiac University [6] – May 8–12, 2008 41% 45% – 14% ABC News/Washington Post [7] 620 ±4% May 8–11, 2008 41% 53%: 4% 2% USA Today ...
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.
November 1–2, 2008 50%: 43% 7 971 LV ±3% CBS News [6] October 31–November 2, 2008 51%: 42% 9 714 LV Not reported Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby International (Daily Tracking) [7] October 31–November 2, 2008 50.9%: 43.8% 7.1 Not reported Not reported Investor's Daily Business/TIPP (Daily Tracking) [8] October 31–November 2, 2008 47.5%: 43% 4.5 ...
The debates, campaigns, primaries, and conventions occurred several months before Election Day. The new president and vice president were sworn on January 20, 2009. It was the first presidential election lacking an incumbent president or vice president since 1952, and was projected to be the largest and most expensive election in U.S. history.
Live election results and related data for Senate, House and governor’s races. Senate Outlook 2014 Forecasts for 2014’s Senate races, based on HuffPost Pollster’s poll-tracking model.
On September 29, 2008, in an open letter to the Armenian-American Community of the United States he stated, that "it is fair to say that one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, the brutal murder of as many as one and a half million Armenians under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, has also been one of the most neglected" and that "it ...