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This article lists potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 presidential election.After Illinois Junior Senator Barack Obama became the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee on June 3, 2008, [1] Obama formed a small committee, made up of James A. Johnson (who stepped down after one week), [2] Eric Holder and Caroline ...
Upon the vote of the Electoral College on December 15, 2008, and the subsequent certification thereof by a Joint Session of the United States Congress on January 8, 2009, Barack Obama was elected as president and Joe Biden as vice president, with 365 of 538 electors.
On June 22, Biden endorsed Barack Obama, and he was chosen on August 23, 2008, as Obama's running mate. On November 4, the Obama–Biden ticket defeated John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin to win the presidential election. Thus, Biden was elected as the 47th Vice President of the United States.
An October 22, 2008 Pew Research Center poll estimated 70% of registered voters believed journalists wanted Barack Obama to win the election, as opposed to 9% for John McCain. [142] Another Pew survey, conducted after the election, found that 67% of voters thought that the press fairly covered Obama, versus 30% who viewed the coverage as unfair.
The incumbent vice president is JD Vance, who assumed office as the 50th vice president on January 20, 2025. [3] [4] There have been 50 U.S. vice presidents since the office was created in 1789. Originally, the vice president was the person who received the second-most votes for president in the Electoral College.
Then-Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama visited Charlotte during an election eve campaign stop in November 2008. He’s the last Democratic presidential candidate to win North Carolina.
On November 4, 2008, Obama was elected president and Biden vice president of the United States. [11] The Obama-Biden ticket won 365 electoral college votes to McCain-Palin's 173, [ 12 ] and had a 53–46 percent edge in the nationwide popular vote. [ 13 ]
Democratic strategist Van Jones compared the 2024 Republican National Convention, during which former President Trump accepted the GOP presidential nomination for the third time, to the 2008 ...