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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.
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.
Debates among candidates for the 2008 U.S. presidential election No. Date Time Host City Moderators Participants Viewership (millions) P1 Friday, September 26, 2008 9:00 pm EDT University of Mississippi: Oxford, Mississippi: Jim Lehrer: Senator Barack Obama Senator John McCain: 52.4 [112] VP Friday, October 3, 2008 9:00 pm EDT
They also won a net gain of one gubernatorial seat. The 2006 elections and 2008 elections represented the first time since 1936 that Democrats or any party made substantial gains in Congress in two consecutive elections. [1] [2] This would be the last election until 2020 in which the Democrats won the presidency and unified control of Congress.
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The debates, campaigns, primaries, and conventions occurred several months before Election Day. The new president and vice president were sworn on January 20, 2009. It was the first presidential election lacking an incumbent president or vice president since 1952, and was projected to be the largest and most expensive election in U.S. history.
2008 marked the first time since 1960 whereby the state was carried by the losing presidential candidate. A possible factor to Tennessee ironically swinging rightward—despite the national Democratic trend—could be the state favoring Hillary Clinton , former First Lady of neighboring Arkansas , over Barack Obama in the Democratic primary, as ...
The 2008 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on November 4, 2008, as part of the 2008 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated.