The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin. Obama became the first African American ever to be elected to the presidency, as well as being only the third sitting United States Senator elected president. President Bush was ineligible to run for a third term due to the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment.
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The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin. Obama became the first African American ever to be elected to the presidency, as well as being only the third sitting United States Senator elected president. President George W. Bush was ineligible to run for a third term due to the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. 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 and 1964. 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. Obama received the largest share of the. popular vote wonby 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. John Kerry, the runner-up in the 2000 election, announced his candidacy on December 28, 2006. John Edwards announced his intentions to run in the Democratic primaries on January 20, 2007. Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for the presidency on January 23, 2007, and John McCain announced his run in June 2007. The election was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, at noon eastern standard time (8 p.m.
local time (GMT-4) in the U.S.) President Bush’s term expired at noon ET (11 p.M. ET) on January 20, 2009. The winner of the election will be inaugurated on January 15, 2009, and the vice president will be sworn in on January 16, 2009 at noon eastern Standard Time (10 p.S. ET). The winner will be announced on January 17, 2009 at 11 a.m ET (12 p.E. GMT) and the date of the Republican National Convention (12:30 p. m. ET (14:30 GMT) on January 18, 2009 (1:30 pm ET) President Bush was the only candidate to have served two terms as president, so he could not run for reelection to a second term. Former presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, each having served only one term, were both eligible to run as president. The current president, Barack Obama, is the first sitting senator from Illinois to have been elected to a full four-year term. The last sitting senator to serve a full term as president was John F. Kennedy, who was elected in 1964. The previous president to serve two terms was Jimmy Carter, who served from 1973 to 1976. The first two presidents to serve more than one term were Bill Clinton, who did so from 1977 to 1993. The third and current president of the United States, George W Bush, was elected to his second term in 2000. The fourth and current U. S. President, Barack Hussein Obama, was the second sitting Senator from Illinois, and served until 2007.
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