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March 11 – The 2006 Southern Republican Leadership Conference Hotline Straw Poll is won by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist with 36.9 percent of the vote. [6] March 21 – United States senator and 1988 presidential candidate Joe Biden of Delaware announces that he will seek the Democratic nomination in 2008. [7]
The United States presidential election of 2008 was sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), a bipartisan organization that sponsored four debates that occurred at various locations around the United States (U.S.) in September and October 2008. Three of the debates involved the presidential nominees, and one involved the vice ...
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.
Presidential elections: Elections for the U.S. President are held every four years, coinciding with those for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, and 33 or 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate. Midterm elections: They occur two years after each presidential election. Elections are held for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives ...
This electoral calendar 2008 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2008 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories. Referendums are included, even though they are not elections.
November 4 – 2008 United States presidential election: Democratic U.S. Senator Barack Obama is elected as the 44th president of the United States and U.S. Senator Joe Biden is elected the 47th vice president. Barack Obama becomes the first African-American president-elect. [53] [54] [55] November 11 – Taylor Swift releases her second studio ...
As February 5 was the earliest date to be allowed by the Democratic National Committee, 23 states and territories moved their elections to that date. 2008's Super Tuesday became the date of the nation's first quasi-national primary. It was dubbed "Super Duper Tuesday" [70] or "Tsunami Tuesday," [71] among other names.
The 2008 United States presidential election in California took place on November 4, 2008, in California as part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Voters chose 55 electors, the most out of any of the 50 states, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .