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2008 United States presidential election ← 2004 November 4, 2008 2012 → 538 members of the Electoral College 270 electoral votes needed to win Opinion polls Turnout 61.6% 1.5 pp Nominee Barack Obama John McCain Party Democratic Republican Home state Illinois Arizona Running mate Joe Biden Sarah Palin Electoral vote 365 173 States carried 28 + DC + NE-02 22 Popular vote 69,498,516 ...
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was the Democratic nominee, and Senator John McCain of Arizona was the Republican nominee. Incumbent President George W. Bush was ineligible for re-election per the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which limits a president to two terms, and incumbent Vice President Dick Cheney declined to run for the office.
In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote.
Prior to the election of 1824, most states did not have a popular vote. In the election of 1824, only 18 of the 24 states held a popular vote, but by the election of 1828, 22 of the 24 states held a popular vote. Minor candidates are excluded if they received fewer than 100,000 votes or less than 0.1% of the vote in their election year.
November 4 – Election Day: Barack Obama and Joe Biden win 52.93 percent of the popular vote and 365 electoral votes to John McCain and Sarah Palin's 45.65 percent and 173 electoral votes. McCain concedes the election in Phoenix, Arizona [288] and President-elect Obama gives his victory speech in Chicago. [289]
By November 19, McCain led Obama by 1,445,813–1,441,910 votes, [5] or approximately 0.14% of the total popular vote in Missouri. CNN called the state for McCain that day. [39] The 2008 election was only the second time in 104 years that it had not voted for the winner of the general election.
The 2008 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 4, 2008. It was part of the 2008 United States presidential election which happened throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose 17 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
The 2008 United States presidential election in North Carolina was part of the national event on November 4, 2008, throughout all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In North Carolina , voters chose 15 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .