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On November 4, 2008, McCain lost to Barack Obama in the general election, receiving 173 votes of the electoral college to Obama's 365 and gaining 46 percent of the popular vote to Obama's 53 percent. Had McCain been elected, he would have been the first president not born in a U.S. state , as he was born in the Panama Canal Zone (a U.S ...
Presidential elections were held in the United States on 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.
February 24–26, 2008 Barack Obama: 48%: John McCain 47% 1,956 LV Not reported Rasmussen Reports/Pulse Opinion Research (Daily Tracking) [397] February 23–26, 2008
The Vermont primary and Texas caucuses are won by Barack Obama. [204] John McCain wins the Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont and Texas Republican primaries, passing the 1,191-delegate threshold and becoming the Republican presumptive nominee. [205] Mike Huckabee withdraws from the Republican race. [206] March 5 – President George W. Bush endorses ...
Throughout much of 2008, polls went back and forth between Obama and Republican nominee John McCain, but Obama eventually polled ahead of McCain a month before the election. Obama ended up winning the state with 51% of the vote, making it the first time the state was won by a Democrat since Bill Clinton prevailed in 1996 and the first time a ...
Former President Barack Obama is reflecting on the late GOP Sen. John McCain, his onetime rival for the White House, and a moment from the 2008 campaign that shows how McCain’s “character ...
John McCain, the nominee of the Republican party in the 2008 United States presidential election, has gained the endorsements of many high-profile figures.. Both McCain and his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, have stated that a person or entity's endorsement of their candidacy does not necessarily imply an endorsement by the candidate of all of the views of the endorser.
While John Kerry lost Lancaster by 32%, Obama lost the county by only 12%, a substantial improvement. [56] John McCain, however, did best in Southwestern Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh, a part of Appalachia and the central, rural "T". Central Pennsylvania is a Republican stronghold; John McCain won the vast majority of its counties, often by ...