Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election defeating John McCain. In the 2008 presidential election Barack Obama received 365 electoral votes and John McCain received 173 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Obama 69,297,997 and McCain 59,597,520.
Democratic: Senator Barack H. Obama with Senator and Chairman Joe R. Biden
Republican: Senator John S. McCain with Governor Sarah L. Palin
Barack Obama/Joe Biden John McCain/Sarah Palin
Five parties nominated candidates for the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Libertarian Party, the Green Party and the Constitution Party. In addition to their candidates, Ralph Nader ran as an Independent.
There was no Presidential election in 1950.
George Washington won the first presidential election in 1789. The 2008 presidential election was the 56th presidential election in the United States.
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Do the voters elect electors not the presidential candidates
In the United States, there was no election in 2009. There was a presidential election in 2008, when the current president Barack Obama claimed victory over his opponent John McCain.
each party nominated presidential and vice-presidential candidates
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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the candidates in the first contested presidential election.
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