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Prior to the election, sixteen of seventeen news organizations considered this a state McCain would win, or a red state. Some polls taken near Election Day in 2008 showed Democrat Barack Obama closer than expected to winning it, but these did not come to fruition, as McCain easily won Arizona and carried all but four of the state's 15 counties. [1]
McCain on the presidential campaign trail in 2007. John McCain was the senior United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018 and was the 2008 Republican nominee for President of the United States; however, he lost the election to Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.
The 2008 Arizona Republican presidential primary took place on February 5, 2008, with 50 national delegates. [1] John McCain would be able to win his homestate against competitors Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee .
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.
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 ...
In the November 2016 election, McCain won his sixth six-year term by 13 percentage points while Trump defeated Clinton by only 3½ points. ... Trump took McCain’s no vote as a personal rebuke ...
From January 3 to June 3, 2008, voters of the Republican Party chose their nominee for president in the 2008 United States presidential election. Senator John McCain of Arizona was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2008 Republican National Convention held from Monday, September 1, through Thursday, September 4, 2008, in Saint Paul ...
In February 2009, McCain began active fundraising efforts for his re-election campaign. [7] McCain faced a possible Republican primary challenge. [5] He had won less than half the votes against the field of candidates in the 2008 Arizona Republican presidential primary, [5] and had only won the presidential contest in Arizona by 8.5 percentage ...