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From January 3 to June 5, 2012, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 2012 United States presidential election.President Barack Obama won the Democratic Party nomination by securing more than the required 2,383 delegates on April 3, 2012, after a series of primary elections and caucuses.
Incumbent President Barack Obama won the nomination unanimously at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and was re-elected as president in the general election by defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney. As expected for the incumbent president, Obama won every primary election, but faced more difficulty than projected. Fifteen additional ...
Amongst white Catholics the figure was higher, with George W Bush receiving 56% of white Catholic votes. [69] Barack Obama, who chose the Catholic Joe Biden as his running mate, received 54% of the Catholic vote in 2008 compared to John McCain's 45%, close to the overall 52% to 46%. [70] In 2012 Obama and Biden faced Mitt Romney and the ...
Incumbent President Barack Obama won the nomination unanimously at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and was re-elected as president in the general election by defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney. As expected for the incumbent president, Obama won every primary election, but faced more difficulty than projected. Fifteen additional ...
Obama for America; 2012 Obama–Biden campaign logo: Campaign: 2012 Democratic primaries 2012 US presidential election: Candidate: Barack Obama 44th President of the United States (2009–2017) Joe Biden 47th vice president of the United States (2009–2017) Affiliation: Democratic Party: Status: Announced: April 4, 2011 Presumptive nominee ...
The 2012 election marked the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt's last two re-elections in 1940 and 1944 that the Democrats won a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections. [152] Obama was also the first president of either party to secure a majority of the popular vote in two elections since Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 ...
The 2012 Democratic National Convention was a gathering, held from September 4–6, 2012, [5] [6] at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina, in which delegates of the Democratic Party nominated President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for reelection, in the 2012 United States national election.
Timeline of the 2012 United States presidential election ← 2008 November 6, 2012 2016 → 2012 U.S. presidential election Timeline General election debates Electors Polling nationwide statewide Parties Democratic Party Candidates Primaries Results Nominee Convention Republican Party Prelude Candidates Debates and forums Primaries National polling Statewide polling Straw polls Results Nominee ...