User:DukeOfDelTaco/sandbox/Results of the 2008 United States presidential election
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This workpage details the results of the 2008 United States presidential election, which was the 56th quadrennial presidential election held on November 4, 2008. Democratic nominee Barack Obama, the junior Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican nominee John McCain, the senior Senator from Arizona.
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538 members of the Electoral College 270 electoral votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 58.2% 1.5 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Obama won a decisive victory over McCain, winning the Electoral College and the popular vote by a sizable margin, including states that had not voted for the Democratic presidential candidate since 1976 (North Carolina) and 1964 (Indiana and Virginia). Obama received the largest share of the popular vote won by a Democrat since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and was the first Democrat to win an outright majority of the popular vote since Jimmy Carter in 1976. Obama's total count of 69.5 million votes stood as the largest tally ever won by a presidential candidate until 2020, when this was surpassed by both major party candidates in a high-turnout election. He was the first Democrat to win without Arkansas and Missouri since those states joined the Union in 1836 and 1821 and the first Democrat to win the presidency without winning West Virginia since 1916.
Obama flipped nine states that had voted Republican in 2004: Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia, as well as Nebraska's 2nd congressional district. As of 2024, this was the last time that Indiana and North Carolina voted for the Democratic nominee.