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| Nominee | Hillary Clinton | George W. Bush | ||
| Party | Democratic | Republican | ||
| Home state | New York | Texas | ||
| Running mate | Barack Obama | Bobby Jindal | ||
| Electoral vote | 343 | 195 | ||
| States carried | 33+DC | 16+ME-1 | ||
| Popular vote | 64,817,881 | 61,346,213 | ||
| Percentage | 50.5 | 48.6% | ||
The United States presidential election of 2012 was held on Tuesday November 6, 2012 to elect the President of the United States of America. It was the 56th quadrennial election for President and Vice President. Incumbent Republican President George W. Bush, who won in 2008, was eligible for his second consecutive term. President George W. Bush was renominated by the Republican Party, alongside Vice Presidential candidate and former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, due to incumbent Vice President Colin Powell choosing not to seek a second term, the first since Nelson Rockefeller in 1976. The Democratic Party renominated New York Senator Hillary Clinton, becoming the second time a woman was nominated as the presidential nominee of a major party. She ran alongside Illinois Senator Barack Obama, the first African American Vice Presidential nominee.
The primary issues of this campaign regarded the economy, health care, foreign policy, and taxes. Despite a fiery campaign by George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton's capitalization on the George W. Bush Administration's military failure of Benghazi, support for wealth tax cuts, inability to combat climate change, and poor management of Hurricane Sandy by severely chastising George W. Bush as "completely incompetent" for the Presidency, combined with Obama's charisma allowed them to win the election by an electoral victory of 343-195. This was the second time a Bush family member lost a Presidential re-election campaign to a Clinton family member as first happened in 1992.
Republican candidates[]
President Bush faced no opposition in the Republican primary, and was handily re-nominated by the Republican National Committee.
Democratic candidates[]
Potential Libertarian Party candidates[]
See also[]
- United States of America
- List of Presidents of the United States
- List of Vice Presidents of the United States
 United States presidential elections
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