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These results represented the first in a pattern of Republican dominance in non-general election years during the Obama presidency. [2] Just one year later in 2010 Republicans gained 63 seats in the House of Representatives, six Senate seats, and 12 Governor's Mansions (net +6 gain).
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):
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
Romney bounced back in the polls after strong performances in the primaries and because the economy was still recovering from the 2007–2009 recession. In April, after Obama publicly expressed his support of same-sex marriage and a story was published about Romney bullying a high-school classmate who was thought to be gay, Obama took larger ...
Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a safe blue state. Although the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania had voted for the Democratic presidential nominee in every election since 1992 , the margins of victory had become smaller over the past elections, as was highlighted ...
Throughout the general election, McCain consistently won the state's pre-election polls, even reaching above 50% in some of them. In the fall campaign, polls were back and forth with both. In the last few weeks when Obama was having the momentum, the final 5 polls taken in the state were all a tie. [19] Here are the final polls in the state:
Maps and electoral vote counts for the 2012 presidential election. Our latest estimate has Obama at 277 electoral votes and Romney at 191. Obama vs. Romney Electoral Map
Barack Obama: 46%: John McCain 42% USA Today/Gallup [338] May 1–3, 2008 Hillary Clinton 46% John McCain: 49%: 803 LV ±5% Barack Obama 47% John McCain: 48%: CBS News/New York Times [339] May 1–3, 2008 Hillary Clinton: 53%: John McCain 41% 601 RV Not reported Barack Obama: 51%: John McCain 40% Diageo/The Hotline/Financial Dynamics [340 ...