The democratic candidate is Barack Obama.
The republican candidate is John McCain.
The actual presidential election in November will be a choice between the Democratic candidate and the Republican one. If the democrats win, the president will be Barack Obama. If the republicans win, John McCain will be the new president. Wich everyone knows John McCain is going to win.
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Running for president of the United States for election 2008.
Willard Mitt Romney is a Republican, and is running for election to be President of the United States. Barack Hussein Obama is a Democrat, holds the office of President, and is running for re-election.
In the 2020 election, Joe Biden is running as the Democratic candidate for president, not Obama. Obama served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017 and is no longer eligible for re-election.
I am not sure what your question is asking. If you are asking about Washington there wasn't a general election for President in 1789.
The candidates up for election for the President of the United States in 2012 were current President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
The President received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election
The president received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election.
In the office of the President of the United States, a running mate is the person that the candidate who receives the nomination selects to be their vice president.
Two Presidents obtained office without running in a general election. George Washington, the United States' first President, was elected unanimously by the Electoral College in 1789 and 1792.Gerald Ford, who was then House Minority Leader, was appointed Vice-President in 1973 when Spiro T. Agnew resigned to face charges of tax evasion. Ford assumed the Presidency in August 1974 when President Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment for obstructing justice in the Watergate scandal, and thus was not elected to office by voters. Jimmy Carter defeated Ford in the 1976 Presidential election.
Yes. In the general election, you can vote for whoever you like regardless of what party you are affiliated or registered with. Yes. In many (but not all) states, party affiliation affects what primaries you can vote in. But it does not force you to vote for that party's candidates in the general election.
A general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election.General election is also a term used in opposition to primary election. In the United States, primary elections serve to narrow down a field of candidates, and general elections actually elect candidates to offices. The general election is usually held on Election Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even-numbered years.It meets the above definition of "general election" in that the entire United States House of Representatives is elected on Election Day, though not the entire United States Congress. Prior to the 17th Amendment, members of the United States Senate were not directly elected by the people but rather by their state legislature. Though Senators have been directly elected since then, only one-third of them are up for election on any given Election Day. The U.S. President is also chosen during a November general election that follows primaries.
United states Presidential election, 1808.