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Election Day was on November 4, 2008. The majority of states allowed early voting, with all states allowing some form of absentee voting. [154] Voters cast votes for listed presidential candidates but were actually selecting representatives for their state's Electoral College slate.
The following is a timeline of major events leading up to and immediately following the United States presidential election of 2008. The election was the 56th quadrennial United States presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008, but its significant events and background date back to about 2002.
Presidents' Day, officially Washington's Birthday at the federal governmental level, is a holiday in the United States celebrated on the third Monday of February. It is often celebrated to honor all those who served as presidents of the United States and, since 1879, has been the federal holiday honoring Founding Father George Washington, who led the Continental Army to victory in the American ...
The Presidents Day II storm left 10 to 30 inches of snow in its wake from the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic to southern New England from Feb. 15-18, 2003.
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.
The White House, official residence of the president of the United States, in July 2008. The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2]
1) The origins of Presidents' Day's go way, way back. Although George Washington wasn't big on celebrating his birthday (he usually spent the day working), a grateful nation informally observed ...
Josh Brolin put his spin on the 43rd president, George W. Bush, in the 2008 comedy-drama movie "W." "W." is a satirical look at Bush's life, jumping back and forth in time from the former ...