The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008.
Democrat Barack Obama, then the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona.
Obama received 365 electoral votes, and McCain 173.
The popular vote was 69,456,897 to 59,934,814, respectively.
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