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States where the margin of victory was under 1% (26 electoral votes; 15 won by Obama, 11 by McCain): Missouri, 0.14% (3,903 votes) – 11 electoral votes; North Carolina, 0.32% (14,177 votes) – 15 electoral votes; States where the margin of victory was between 1% and 5% (62 electoral votes; 59 won by Obama, 3 by McCain):
The 2008 presidential election was the first since 1952 in which neither an incumbent president nor an incumbent vice president was a candidate. Senator Obama won the number of electors necessary to be elected president and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.
Obama won the election, gaining a seat previously represented by Republican Peter Fitzgerald. In 2008, Obama entered the Democratic primaries for the U.S. presidential election. Numerous candidates entered initially, but over time the field narrowed down to Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton from New York. The contest was highly competitive ...
Clinton won the Rhode Island primary 58-40% and received 33,600 more votes than Obama. In contrast, Obama won the Hawaii caucuses 76-24%, but received only 19,500 more votes than Clinton. [13] Thus, some researchers argue that the popular vote underestimates the depth of Obama's support in caucus states. [15]
From January 3 to June 3, 2008, voters of the Democratic Party chose their nominee for president in the 2008 United States presidential election. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was selected as the nominee, becoming the first African American to secure the presidential nomination of any major political party in the United States.
Barack Obama: 2008: Democratic: 69,498,516 52.93% Winner. Barack Obama: 2012: ... the Electoral College did not distinguish between votes for president and vice ...
Obama's 1,374,039 votes is the most received by a Democratic presidential candidate in the state's history. While both states went to the Democratic nominee, Indiana voted more Democratic in this election than North Carolina , a modern-day swing state whereas Indiana would return to its Republican roots just four years later.
Many pundits have considered Obama's 2008 campaign to be one of the greatest political underdog stories in U.S. history. [9] [10] The campaign is credited for shifting the status quo of the Democratic platform, especially on issues such as healthcare reform. Prior to 2007, Obama was largely unknown on a national level outside of his Senate ...