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United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, 2008
Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a safe blue state.
United States presidential election in Michigan, 2008
Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a safe blue state.
United States presidential election in Nevada, 2008
On election day, Obama won the state with 55% and by a double digit margin of victory, a much better performance than polls showed, including the most accurate pollster Rasmussen Reports.
United States presidential election in Illinois, 2008
Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a safe blue state.
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Smith County, Texas
Democrat Barack Obama won 30% of the vote and 23,726 votes.
Montgomery County, Alabama
In the presidential race, Barack Obama won 62,166 votes, or 59%, while 42,031 votes (40% of those cast) were for John McCain
Illinois Senate career of Barack Obama
In the November 5 general election, Obama was elected state Senator for the 13th District, winning 82% of the vote; perennial unsuccessful Harold Washington Party candidate David Whitehead received 13% of the vote, and first-time Republican Party candidate Rosette Caldwell Peyton received 5% of the vote.
Indiana's 7th congressional district
Most recently in 2008, Barack Obama won 71% of the vote in the 7th district.
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Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008
On November 4, 2008, projections indicated that Obama won the election, making him the President-elect and the first African American elected President of the United States.
Arab Peace Initiative
Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, wrote in the The Washington Post in support shortly after Barack Obama's 2008 election victory. al-Faisal stated that "there are reasons to be optimistic" and"best medicine yet formulated for the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is the Arab peace initiative".
Shelby Steele
After Obama won the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Steele defended his analysis and claimed that the subtitle of the book was simply a marketing device that he had only put "about 30 seconds" of thought into.
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Kathleen Sebelius
Obama won the caucus easily, with 74% support.
Ramona Martinez
Although Martinez faced pressure to switch her convention vote to Illinois Senator Barack Obama after Obama won Colorado's caucus in February and became the Democrat's presumptive nominee in June, Martinez remained the lone holdout in the Colorado delegation to remain committed to Clinton as late as early August.
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United States presidential election in Wyoming, 2008
Obama also won Albany County, due in large part to the presence of the University of Wyoming at Laramie and the tremendous excitement that his campaign fueled among younger voters and college students.
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United States presidential election in Illinois, 2008
Thus, it came as no surprise that Barack Obama, who represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate, won Illinois in 2008 over Republican John McCain in a landslide victory, clinching near 62% of the total vote.
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United States presidential election in Wyoming, 2008
Obama also won Albany County, due in large part to the presence of the University of Wyoming at Laramie and the tremendous excitement that his campaign fueled among younger voters and college students.
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United States presidential election in Nevada, 2008
This was due almost entirely to Obama winning the state's three largest jurisdictions: Clark County, home to Las Vegas; Washoe County, which contains Reno, Nevada; and the independent city of Carson City, which combine for 88% of Nevada's total population.
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Arizona Democratic primary, 2008
She also carried seven of the state’s eight congressional districts – the 5th District, which contains Tempe and Scottsdale, was won by Obama.
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Fifty-state strategy
Obama was ultimately able to win Virginia and Indiana, two states that had not voted Democratic since 1964, and North Carolina, last won by a Democrat in 1976.
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Larry Sabato
In July 2008, Sabato's Crystal Ball correctly projected that Barack Obama would win the presidency in a near-landslide.
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Somerset County, New Jersey
Obama won Somerset by a 6.1% margin over John McCain, with Obama carrying the state by 15.5% over McCain.
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Cher
After Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination, Cher supported his candidacy on radio and TV programs, including a November 3 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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San Diego County, California
In 2008, Barack Obama became the first Democrat to win a majority of votes in San Diego County since World War II.
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Ithaca, New York
In 2008, Barack Obama, running against New York State's Senator Hillary Clinton, won Tompkins County in the Democratic Presidential Primary, the only county that he won in New York State.
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Butte County, California
The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively.
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Laguna Beach, California
In the 2008 presidential election, Democratic candidate Barack Obama received 62% of the city’s vote, while Republican candidate John McCain received 35% of the vote.
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
All four statewide Democratic candidates carried Montgomery in 2008, with Barack Obama receiving 60% of the county's vote.
Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries
In contrast, Obama won the Hawaii caucuses 76-24%, but received only 19,500 more votes than Clinton.
Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries
The Clinton campaign has argued that popular vote totals should include Florida and Michigan and that Obama should receive 0 votes in Michigan.
St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Democrat Barack Obama received 23% (24,596) votes.
Phelps County, Missouri
Barack Obama came in second place but also received more votes, a total of 1,878, than Mike Huckabee (who received 1,728 and first place in the GOP Primary in Phelps County).
Christian County, Missouri
Former U.S. Senator and now Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) won Christian County over now President Barack Obama (D-Illinois) with 57.68 percent of the vote while Obama received 39.93 percent of the vote.
Wayne County, Missouri
Clinton carried Wayne County with 75.94 percent of the vote while Obama only received 18.70 percent of the vote.
Wayne County, Missouri
In the end, Obama received 49.32 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 47.90 percent—a 1.42 percent difference.
Bollinger County, Missouri
In the end, Obama received 49.32 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 47.90 percent—a 1.42 percent difference.
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
In 2008, three of four Democrats running statewide carried the county, with Barack Obama receiving 63% of the county vote to 37% for John McCain.
Florida's 19th congressional district
Barack Obama received 65% of the vote in this district in 2008.
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Alabama's 2nd congressional district
At the federal level, the district is strongly Republican; it gave John McCain 63.42% of the vote in 2008 while Barack Obama received 36.05% here.
Democratic Party (United States)
Democrats increased their share of the Hispanic vote in the 2008 presidential election, with Barack Obama receiving 67%.
Michigan Democratic primary, 2008
According to the poll, if the other major contenders were to appear in the ballot, Clinton would receive 46% of the vote, Obama would receive 23%, and Edwards would get 13% while 42% of the uncommitted vote would go to Obama.
Michigan Democratic primary, 2008
The first column of the table shows that according to the exit poll, Clinton, Obama, Edwards and Richardson would have received 46%, 35%, 12% and 1% respectively with such an expanded ballot.
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Phelps County, Missouri
Barack Obama came in second place but also received more votes, a total of 1,878, than Mike Huckabee (who received 1,728 and first place in the GOP Primary in Phelps County).
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United States presidential election in Nevada, 2008
With the anti-Republican sentiment growing nationwide and the fact that McCain barely campaigned here, Nevada swung wildly into the Democratic column in 2008 as Barack Obama carried the state by 12.50 points over John McCain, receiving 55.15% of the total statewide vote to McCain's 42.65%.
United States presidential election in Illinois, 2008
Barack Obama, the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois at the time of the election, carried the state handily, defeating John McCain of Arizona by a margin of 1.38 million votes.
Effingham County, Illinois
In the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, John McCain carried the county by a 36% margin over Illinois's native son Barack Obama, making it McCain's strongest county in the state, with Obama carrying his home state by a 25.1% margin over McCain.
Somerset County, New Jersey
Obama won Somerset by a 6.1% margin over John McCain, with Obama carrying the state by 15.5% over McCain.
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Gary Peters (Michigan politician)
He was undoubtedly helped by Barack Obama carrying Oakland County by 15 points; roughly two-thirds of Oakland County is in the 9th.
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Democratic Party (United States)
Polls suggest that younger voters tend to be more liberal than the general population and have more liberal views than the general public on same-sex marriage and universal healthcare, helping Barack Obama carry 66% of their votes in 2008.
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Arizona Democratic primary, 2008
Clinton won self-identified Democratic voters and all ideological groups while Obama carried Independents in the state.
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