In the 2008 election, Barrack Obama won by 192 electoral votes, receiving 365 electoral votes to McCain's 173 electoral votes (out of a total of 538). Mr. Obama received 69,456,897 votes to McCain's 59,934,814, nearly 10 million more votes. In the 2012 election, Mr. Obama won re-election; although the popular vote was closer in 2012, the electoral vote was not. There are still a few votes that have not been counted yet, but the total we have is 62,615,406 votes (51%) for President Obama, with 332 electoral votes; and 59,142,004 (48%) votes for Mitt Romney, with 206 electoral votes. Barack Obama thus got 3,473,402 votes more than his challenger.
2008 Presidential Election: Barack Obama beat John McCain 8,274,473 votes to 5,011,781 votes, receiving California's 55 electoral votes.
2012 Presidential Election: Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney 7,854,285 votes to 4,839,958 votes, receiving California's 55 electoral votes.
President Obama won all of California's 55 electoral votes in 2012 and received a strong 59.1 percent of the state's votes over Republican challenger Mitt Romney. No Republican candidate has won the State of California in a presidential election since 1988, when Vice President George H.W. Bush narrowly defeated Democratic challenger Michael Dukakis.
CA has 55 electorial votes and all went to Obama. He took the state majority and therefore gets all the votes.
The final vote count concluded that 61.01% of Californians voted for Obama in 2008.
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California had 55 electoral votes in 2008. These went to Barack Obama, Democrat.
John McCain received 0 of 55 electoral votes from California, or 0% of California's electoral votes losing the state to Barack Obama with 5,011,781 votes to Obama's 8,274,473 votes, only 36.95% of the total votes cast.
Barack Obama received 1,037,291 votes compared to John McCain's 738,475 votes, giving Obama the 7 electoral votes from Oregon.
Barack Obama received 1,374,039 votes in Indiana in the 2008 presidential election.
Barack Obama won 1,904,097 votes compared to John McCain's 1,108,854 votes, giving Obama all 12 electoral votes from Massachusetts.
Barack Obama won 3 electoral votes in Delaware by receiving 255,459 votes to 152,374 votes for McCain.
Barack Obama won 9 electoral votes in Colorado by winning the state with 1,288,576 votes to McCain's 1,073,589 votes.
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Barack Obama won 12 electoral votes from Massachusetts, receiving 1,904,097 votes compared to John McCain's 1,108,854 votes.
Barack Obama received 365 electoral votes to John McCain's 173 electoral votes, a difference of 192 electoral votes.
Barack Obama received 0 electoral votes from Idaho in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.In 2008, Barack Obama received 0 electoral votes from Idaho, losing Idaho's 4 electoral votes to John McCain whom received 403,012 votes to Obama's 236,440.In 2012, Barack Obama lost the state's 4 electoral votes to Mitt Romney who received 420,750 votes to Obama's 212,560.
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