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As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the most recent time a Democrat carried Indiana and North Carolina in a presidential election, as well as the most recent presidential election where any candidate would win with over two-thirds of the electoral vote. McCain remains the last presidential candidate to receive fewer than 200 electoral ...
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.
Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote. If no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote, the winner is determined through a contingent election held in the United States House of Representatives; this situation has occurred ...
[75] On April 2, 2007, Sharpton announced that he would not get into the 2008 presidential race. [76] Mark Warner, former governor of Virginia: Mark Warner, born December 15, 1954, in Indiana, is a former governor of Virginia. He became the Democratic candidate in the 2008 US Senate election in Virginia, and eventually won the
From January 3 to June 3, 2008, voters of the Democratic Party chose their nominee for president in the 2008 United States presidential election.Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was selected as the nominee, becoming the first African American to secure the presidential nomination of any major political party in the United States.
This article contains lists of official candidates associated with the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries for the 2008 United States presidential election.. In accordance with the 22nd Amendment, incumbent President George W. Bush was prohibited from running for president in 2008, having served two full terms in the office.
December 17 – Former Democratic Senator, 2004 presidential candidate and 2004 vice presidential nominee John Edwards of North Carolina announces he will formally begin his candidacy later in the month. [32] December 19 – Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore announces he is setting up an exploratory committee, saying that he is a "Reagan ...