2008 United States presidential election in Florida
The 2008 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 4, 2008. Voters chose 27 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Florida was won by Democratic nominee Barack Obama by a 2. 8% margin of victory.
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The 2008 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 4, 2008. Voters chose 27 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Florida was won by Democratic nominee Barack Obama by a 2. 8% margin of victory, making it the first time since 1996 to be won by a Democrat. Obama won the state and its 27 electoral votes on Election Day by a margin of about 2. 82%. According to exit polling, Obama’s win in the state can be attributed to winning 96% of the African-American vote, 57% of Latino voters, and 52% among Independents. Big wins in the Orlando and Tampa Bay areas, where George W. Bush won in 2004, contributed to Obama’s victory. John McCain kept the relatively close race relatively close, losing by far less than his national average.
Along the northern Florida panhandle, McCain won the majority of counties by double-digit landslides, something he achieved in very few other parts of the state. The Democratic ticket visited the state 12 times to the Republicans’ 11 times. The networks avoided calling the state for Obama until the conservative northwestern portion, most of which is in the Central Time Zone, began reporting its returns. However, Obama maintained a lead of at least 125,000 votes from the moment from the polls closed in the moment in the evening that the networks called the election for Obama. The final 3 polls had Obama leading 49% to 48% with undecided voters to decide the election. The 3 poll averages showed McCain leading throughout most of the presidential election season, until the last month of October.
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