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2008 ELECTION RESULTS:


DEMOCRATS:
BARACK OBAMA (PRESIDENT)
JOE BIDEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 365 (67.8%)
Popular Vote: 69,456,897 (52.9%)

REPUBLICANS:
JOHN MCCAIN (PRESIDENT)
SARAH PALIN  (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 173 (32.2%)
Popular Vote: 59,934,814 (45.7%)

ADDITIONAL MAPS/DATA:
American Presidency Project
Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
National Archives (Map, Results)
New York Times

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES: 

BARACK H. OBAMA (PRESIDENT)
JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR. (VICE PRESIDENT)

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES:

JOHN MCCAIN (PRESIDENT)
SARAH PALIN (VICE PRESIDENT)

 

SPEECHES:

Biden Convention, 8/28/2008 (Transcript, Video)
Obama Convention, 8/28/2008 (Transcript, Video)
Palin Convention, 9/3/2008 (Transcript, Video)
McCain Convention, 9/4/2008 (Transcript, Video)
McCain Concession, 11/4/2008 (Transcript, Video)
Obama Victory, 11/4/2008 (Transcript, Video)

DEBATES:

Democratic Presidential Nominee, Senator Barack Obama participates in the first presidential debate with Senator McCain at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS on Friday, September 26, 2008. (David Katz/Obama for America)

9/26/2008 (Transcript, Video)
10/2/2008 VP (Transcript, Video)
10/7/2008  (Transcript, Video)
10/15/2008 (Transcript, Video)

CAMPAIGN ADS:

John McCain 3.21.16c
John McCain and Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention on September 4, 2008. (Tom LeGro/ PBS NewsHour,/ licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0)

The Livingroom Candidate
Stanford Political Communication Lab

RECOMMENDED BOOK:

GAME CHANGE by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann

RESOURCES:

John McCain 3.21.16b
Front Pages, 11/5/2008 (NYT, WP)
Results, 11/5/2008 (NYT, WP)
LA Times Archives
The Choice 2008 (Frontline/ PBS)
Documents (American Presidency Project)
Miller Center
Wikipedia