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The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 2008.The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.
Several federal holidays are widely observed by private businesses with paid time off. These include New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Businesses often close or grant paid time off for New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve, and the Day after Thanksgiving, but none of these are federal holidays ...
Independence Day. Labor Day. Columbus Day. Veterans Day. Thanksgiving Day. Christmas Day. Federal holidays in the United States are 11 calendar dates designated by the U.S. federal government as holidays. On these days non-essential U.S. federal government offices are closed and federal employees are paid for the day off.
August 4 – YearlyKos holds its Presidential Leadership Forum, which is attended by seven of the eight Democratic candidates. [91] August 5 – A Republican debate is hosted by ABC News in Des Moines, Iowa. [92] August 7 – MSNBC and the AFL–CIO host a Democratic debate over labor issues in Chicago, Illinois.
Election Day in the United States is the annual day for general elections of federal public officials. It is statutorily set by the U.S. government as "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November", [1] i.e. the Tuesday that occurs within November 2 to November 8. For federal offices ( president, vice president, and United States ...
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. United States Senate
Campaign site. Barack Obama / Joe Biden ( campaign ) Democratic, South Carolina United Citizens, New York Working Families [4] barackobama.com. John McCain / Sarah Palin ( campaign ) Republican, New York Independence, New York Conservative. johnmccain.com.
t. e. 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.