United States presidential election, 2008
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The United States presidential election of 2008, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, was the 56th consecutive quadrennial United States presidential election to select the President and the Vice President of the United States.
The Republican Party nominated John McCain, the senior United States Senator from Arizona as its nominee; the Democratic Party nominated Barack Obama, the junior United States Senator from Illinois, as its nominee. The Libertarian Party nominated former Congressman Bob Barr, the Constitution Party pastor and radio talk show host Chuck Baldwin, and the Green Party former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Ralph Nader declined to seek the Green Party nomination and ran as an independent candidate.
Barack Obama won the number of electors necessary to be elected President. He is the president-elect, and will be inaugurated on January 20, 2009.[1]
The 2008 election was the first time in U.S. history that a Black was elected president. It was also the first time two sitting senators ran against each other, as well as the first time a Black was a presidential nominee for a major party.
The election coincided with the 2008 Senate elections in thirty-three states, House of Representatives elections in all states, and gubernatorial elections in eleven states, as well as various state referenda and local elections. As in the 2004 presidential election, the allocation of electoral votes to each state was based on the 2000 Census. The remaining two electoral votes represent the two Senators from each state serving the U.S. (Washington D.C. is served through the 23rd Amendment).
