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The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008.The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.
Although Guam has no votes in the Electoral College, it has held a straw poll for its presidential preferences since 1980. In 2008, their ballot included Barr, McCain, and Obama. On July 10, 2008, the Guam legislature passed a law moving that poll forward to gain notoriety for Guam's election. [63] The legislation was eventually vetoed. [64]
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.
On June 22, Biden endorsed Barack Obama, and he was chosen on August 23, 2008, as Obama's running mate. On November 4, the Obama–Biden ticket defeated John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin to win the presidential election. Thus, Biden was elected as the 47th Vice President of the United States.
t. e. Barack Obama, then junior United States senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for president of the United States on February 10, 2007, in Springfield, Illinois. [1] After winning a majority of delegates in the Democratic primaries of 2008, on August 23, leading up to the convention, the campaign announced that Senator Joe Biden ...
Although Clinton was the 25th woman to run for U.S. president, [115] she was the first female candidate to have held a highly probable chance of winning the nomination of a major party, and the presidential election. [116] She was also the first woman to be an American presidential candidate in every primary and caucus in every state. [117]
United States third party and independent presidential candidates, 2008. Political positions of John McCain. Political positions of Barack Obama. Political positions of Joe Biden. Political positions of Sarah Palin. Political positions of Cynthia McKinney. Political positions of Bob Barr. United States federal budget.
2008 United States presidential candidates. 2008 United States presidential candidates may refer to: List of candidates in the United States presidential election, 2008. United States Democratic presidential candidates, 2008. United States Republican presidential candidates, 2008. United States third party presidential candidates, 2008.