2008 United States presidential election | Wikipedia audio article
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2008 United States presidential election


00:02:37 1 Nominations
00:02:47 1.1 Democratic Party nomination
00:02:56 1.1.1 Candidate
00:03:04 1.1.2 Withdrawn candidates
00:04:31 1.1.3 Before the primaries
00:05:46 1.1.4 Early primaries and caucuses
00:07:40 1.1.5 Super Tuesday
00:08:49 1.1.6 Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania
00:10:30 1.1.7 Indiana and North Carolina
00:11:33 1.1.8 Florida and Michigan
00:12:41 1.1.9 Clinching the nomination
00:14:17 1.2 Republican Party nomination
00:15:18 1.2.1 Candidate
00:15:26 1.2.2 Withdrawn candidates
00:17:13 1.2.3 Before the primaries
00:18:39 1.2.4 Early primaries/caucuses
00:19:41 1.2.5 Super Tuesday
00:21:59 1.3 Other nominations
00:23:31 1.3.1 Candidates gallery
00:23:39 1.4 Party conventions
00:24:30 2 General election campaign
00:24:40 2.1 Issues
00:24:48 2.1.1 Iraq
00:26:04 2.1.2 Bush's unpopularity
00:27:09 2.1.3 Age issue
00:32:12 2.1.4 Economy
00:34:58 2.1.5 Health care
00:36:47 2.2 Debates
00:38:30 2.3 Campaign costs
00:39:26 2.3.1 Expense summary
00:40:06 2.4 Notable expressions and phrases
00:40:55 3 Internet campaigns
00:41:04 3.1 Fundraising
00:41:38 3.2 Promotion
00:43:44 4 Controversies
00:43:53 4.1 Voter suppression
00:46:14 4.2 Media bias
00:50:05 5 Conduct
00:54:00 5.1 Turnout
00:57:00 5.2 Ballot access
01:01:34 6 Results
01:01:54 6.1 Results by state
01:02:50 6.2 Close states/districts
01:04:26 6.3 International reaction
01:04:47 7 Voter demographics
01:05:12 8 Analysis
01:10:16 9 See also
01:11:06 9.1 Opinion polling



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The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior Senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior Senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior Senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska. Obama became the first African American ever to be elected as president.
Incumbent Republican President George W. Bush was ineligible to pursue a third term due to the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. As neither Bush nor Vice President Dick Cheney sought the presidency, the 2008 election was the first election since 1952 in which neither major party's presidential nominee was the incumbent president or the incumbent vice president. McCain secured the Republican nomination by March 2008, defeating Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and other challengers. The Democratic primaries were marked by a sharp contest between Obama and the initial front-runner, Senator Hillary Clinton. Clinton's victory in the New Hampshire primary made her the first woman to win a major party's presidential primary. After a long primary season, Obama clinched the Democratic nomination in June 2008.
Early campaigning focused heavily on the Iraq War and Bush's unpopularity. McCain supported the war, as well as a troop surge that had begun in 2007, while Obama strongly opposed the war. Bush endorsed McCain, but the two did not campaign together, and Bush did not appear in person at the 2008 Republican National Convention. Obama campaigned on the theme that "Washington must change," while McCain emphasized his experience. The campaign was strongly affected by the onset of a major financial crisis, which peaked in September 2008. McCain's decision to suspend his campaign during the height of the financial crisis backfired as voters viewed his response as erratic.
Obama won a decisive victory over McCain, winning the Electoral College and the popular vote by a sizable margin, including states that had not voted for the Democratic presidential candidate since 1976 (North Carolina) and 1964 (Indiana and Virginia). Obama received the largest share of the popular vote won by a Democrat since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. As of the 2016 presidential election Obama's total count of 69.5 million votes still stands as the largest tally ever won by a presidential can ...