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Very early on the election polls were tight, [24] with McCain even leading by 5 in one poll on January 21 and a tie in a poll on March 16, but Obama won every poll after March 18. He won each by a double-digit margin since August 8. The final 3 polls averaged Obama leading 56% to 36%. [25]
Obama was the first Democrat to carry Olmstead County since 1964. In 2008 78.1% of eligible Minnesotans voted – the highest percentage of any U.S. state – versus the national average of 61.2% As of 2024 , this election was the last time Minnesota voted by a double-digit margin for a presidential candidate.
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):
Obama took 53.66% of the vote to McCain's 44.71%. The state was heavily targeted by both campaigns, although, prior to the election, all 17 news organizations actually considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a likely blue state. While George W. Bush narrowly carried the state in 2004, Colorado ultimately flipped to Obama
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%.
The new homeowner is not President Obama. Mary Worrall and Elizabeth Worrall Daily know the house well, but they're not buying it. The two brokered the deal on the $8.7 million compound in Waimanalo.
Another setback for Obama was that U.S. Representative Dan Boren, the only Democrat from Oklahoma's five-member delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives, refused to endorse Obama. Another key to McCain's victory was the highly populated counties of Tulsa County , which he won with over 62%, and Oklahoma County, which he won with over 58%.
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