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2008 United States presidential election ← 2004 November 4, 2008 2012 → 538 members of the Electoral College 270 electoral votes needed to win Opinion polls Turnout 61.6% 1.5 pp Nominee Barack Obama John McCain Party Democratic Republican Home state Illinois Arizona Running mate Joe Biden Sarah Palin Electoral vote 365 173 States carried 28 + DC + NE-02 22 Popular vote 69,498,516 ...
The 2008 presidential election was the first since 1952 in which neither an incumbent president nor an incumbent vice president was a candidate. Senator Obama won the number of electors necessary to be elected president and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.
Julian dates or day numbers can be used for date calculations. A simple example follows: ... 24 March 2008 (1 day less than first example due to leap year in 2008)
This electoral calendar 2008 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2008 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories. Referendums are included, even though they are not elections.
Pages in category "2008 by day" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 378 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The large number of states that held elections on February 5 could have shortened the period between the first caucus in Iowa, on January 3, 2008, and the de facto selection of a party's nominee to just a few weeks. [2] Super Tuesday 2008 saw 52% of the Democratic and 41% of the Republican delegates awarded by early
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A precise date is specified by the ISO week-numbering year in the format YYYY, a week number in the format ww prefixed by the letter 'W', and the weekday number, a digit d from 1 through 7, beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday. For example, the Gregorian date Tuesday, 7 January 2025 corresponds to day number 2 in the week number 02 of ...