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| United States Presidential election, 2008 | ||||
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| November 4, 2008 | ||||
| Turnout | 57% | |||
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| Nominee | Ron Paul | Joe Biden | ||
| Party | Republican | Democratic | ||
| Home state | Texas | Delaware | ||
| Running mate | Pat Buchanan | Hillary Clinton | ||
| Electoral vote | 334 | 204 | ||
| States carried | 35 | 15 + DC | ||
| Popular vote | 71,891,045 | 69,196,761 | ||
| Percentage | 51% | 48% | ||
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| Election results map. Red denotes states won by Paul/Buchanan (), Blue denotes states won by Biden/Clinton ( plus D.C.) | ||||
President before election
Al Gore Democratic
Elected President
Ron Paul Republican | ||||
The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. the Republican ticket of Ron Paul, a representative from Texas, and Pat Buchanan, the former White House Director of Communications, defeated the Democratic ticket of Joe Biden, a Senator from Delaware, and Hillary Clinton, a senior Senator from New York.
Incumbent President Al Gore was ineligible to run for a third term under the provisions of the 22nd Amendment and vice president Joe Lieberman declined to seek a presidential bid making this the first election since 1952 in which neither major party's presidential nominee was the incumbent president or the incumbent vice president.
Freshman Senator Barack Obama had been the front-runner of the Democratic Party during the primaries and was believed to eventually become the Party's nominee. However, Obama faced major scrutiny after a rumor surfaced that he was not a natural born citizen. Unable to prove this rumor false Obama ended up withdrawing from the race allowing Delaware Senator Joe Biden to claim the party's nomination. Biden chose former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of the Gore Administration to be his running mate. Representative Ron Paul of Texas won the Republican party's nomination defeating many challengers within his party, and chose Pat Buchanan as his running mate.
Paul was able to capitalize on the 2008 financial crisis, and campaigned that Washington needs to stay out of people's lives. Where as Biden tried to distance him self from the President and ensured that Washington would do everything in its power to end the recession.
Ron Paul became the first Republican to be elected president since George H W Bush in 1988, ending a string of four consecutive Democratic victories. Paul benefited from former president Al Gore's abysmal popularity due to his handling of the war in Iraq and the 2008 financial crisis, and was able to flip several key swing states in the Midwest that had not gone Republican since the 1988 presidential election.