Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate 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.
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In 1992 George H. W. Bush ran for the Republicans and lost, H. Ross Perot ran as an Independent and lost. Bill Clinton (William J. Clinton) won the election.
Mike Huckabee and Hilary Clinton were dropped in the 2008 election and McCain was left for the Republican Party while Obama was left for the Democratic Party; Obama eventually won the election.
It was the first election of a U.S. President whose ancestry is half European/ half African. It was the first time that a Democratic presidential candidate received more than 50% of the nationwide popular votes since Jimmy Carter did in 1976, and it was the first time that a Democratic presidential candidate both received more than 50% of the nationwide popular votes and carried more than 50% of the states since Lyndon Johnson did in 1964. It was also the first U.S. presidential election since 1952 in which neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President was a candidate.
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.
The election was in 2008, this is 2011. President Bush supported (past tense) Senator John McCain, the Republican candidate.
This is David Chang. Fred Thompson dropped out of the race.
John McCain won the Republican primaries to become Republican candidate for US president in 2008. However, he lost the presidential election to Barack Obama.
Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate 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.
The nominee for president was from Arizona and and the VP candidate was from Alaska.
The republican candidate for president of the United States in 2012 was Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts. He lost the General Election to Barack Obama.
Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate 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.
Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska , was the candidate.
In the Election of 2008, the Electoral Votes from the State of Georgia went to the Republican candidate, Senator John McCain from Arizona.
Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate John McCain. Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
Sarah Palin
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