Title: Presidential Election of 2008
Headings: 2008 Presidential Election
2008 Presidential Election
Barack H. Obama
2008 Election Results
2008 Election Facts
Margin of Victory Map

Content: Wikipedia
2008 Election Results


Candidate
Party
Electoral Votes
Popular Votes
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Barack H. Obama
Democratic
365
69,498,516


John S. McCain
Republican
173
59,948,323
2008 Election Facts
McCain won Nebraska but Obama earned an electoral vote by winning the popular vote in the 2nd Congressional District. This marked the first time that Nebraska has split its electoral vote since it moved away from the winner-take-all method in 1992. Popular vote totals generally gathered from state Certificates of Ascertainment and/or results posted directly by individual states. Popular vote totals from Federal Elections 2008. Obama received more votes than any candidate in history. The prior record, about 62 million, was set in 2004 by George W. Bush
Issues of the Day: Great Recession, Financial panic, Bailouts, Iraq War
Margin of Victory Map
This map is shaded by how large the popular vote difference was between the two nominees. It is a way to view the relative competitiveness of each state. These maps are also available as a timeline for each election from 1972-2020.