The most obvious ground breaking feature of 2008 was the election of a black man to the presidency. (He actually has a white mother, but calls himself black.)
He is also the first from Hawaii, the first with a parent born in a third-world country and the first with two multiply-dvorced parents.
It saw the election of the first black American President.
The 2008 US presidential election was truly a historic election. The reason is that for the first time an Afro-American was elected to the US Presidency.
elected a black man president
There are many places where one can find voting results for the 2008 presidential election. One can find voting results of the 2008 presidential election at popular on the web sources such as CNN and NPR.
Not in the US- presidential election were held in 2004 and 2008 the next one will be in 2012. (The year of a presidential election is always a multiple of 4 .)
Obama did in the demorcrat party
'Lucrative'?
no, the south hated him. His election was one reason the southern states seceded.
No one, because 2007 wasn't an election year.
about one million
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A byelection is a small election held for one or two seats in a parliamentary legislature. In a general election, all seats are to be contested, but in the event that a member of parliament resigns or dies or for some other reason vacates the seat, they have a special election, a byelection, to fill that one seat.