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All four major candidates for president and vice president went on to hold significant public office after this election. Obama and Biden served their second terms as president and vice president, respectively. Biden initially retired from politics after leaving office in 2017, but later ran for president against Donald Trump in 2020 and won.
In October 2010, Biden said Obama had asked him to remain as his running mate for the 2012 presidential election, [56] but with Obama's popularity on the decline, White House Chief of Staff William M. Daley conducted some secret polling and focus group research in late 2011 on the idea of replacing Biden on the ticket with Hillary Clinton. [57]
[11] [12] On May 8, 2012, Keith Russell Judd, an inmate serving a 17.5-year sentence, won 41% of the primary vote in West Virginia against incumbent Barack Obama, a higher percentage of the vote in one state than any other primary opponent of Obama had hitherto achieved in 2012.
Won 12 percent of the vote in Louisiana, and qualified for three delegates, [11] which the Louisiana Democratic Party stripped due to his lack of a delegate slate. [ 12 ] Had the strongest showing for an Obama challenger with 42 percent of the vote in Arkansas, [ 6 ] [ 13 ] qualifying for 19 delegates, [ 14 ] which the Arkansas Democratic Party ...
Incumbent President Barack Obama won the nomination unanimously at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and was re-elected as president in the general election by defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney. As expected for the incumbent president, Obama won every primary election, but faced more difficulty than projected. Fifteen additional ...
The 2012 United States elections took place on November 6, 2012.Democratic President Barack Obama won reelection to a second term and the Democrats gained seats in both chambers of Congress, retaining control of the Senate even though the Republican Party retained control of the House of Representatives.
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates.The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter.
A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was first elected to the Illinois Senate in 1997 representing the 13th district, which covered much of the Chicago South Side. In 2000, Obama ran an unsuccessful campaign for Illinois's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives against four-term incumbent Bobby Rush.