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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime is a book by political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin about the 2008 United States presidential election. [1] Released on January 11, 2010, [2] it was also published in the United Kingdom under the title Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White ...
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%.
McCain narrowly won the areas in Jackson County outside Kansas City with 49.9% to Obama's 48.8%, but Obama carried the county with 62.14% of the vote due to his strong performance in Kansas City. These two cities had contributed to close margins for elections in Missouri, and 2008 was no different, as these cities frequently create large ...
However, Obama maintained a lead of at least 125,000 votes from the moment polls closed in the state. On the other hand, John McCain kept the state relatively close, losing by far less than his national average. In northern Florida, a Republican stronghold, McCain won the majority of counties by double-digit landslides.
Barack Obama John McCain Main article: United States presidential election, 2008 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 .
As the United States gears up to choose the 45th U.S. president, a new book claims the worst president to serve in American history was Barack Obama.
Arizona was won by Republican nominee and native son John McCain with an 8.48% margin of victory over Democrat Barack Obama. McCain had served as United States Senator from the state since 1987, and enjoyed high approval ratings. Prior to the election, sixteen of seventeen news organizations considered this a state McCain would win, or a red state.