On November 4 2008, over 69.4 million Americans cast their votes for Barack Hussein Obama II, while some 59.9 million voters chose John Sidney McCain III as their preferred president
Biden represented Delaware for 36 years in the US Senate before becoming the 47th vice-president. Biden ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008. In 2020, Biden and Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Donald Trump and Mike Pence for the White House. In the 2016 elections, Democrat Hillary Clinton only received 58% of the vote among those younger than 30, Republican Donald Trump received 28%. The rest voted for one of the other candidates.
Democratic presidential nominee US Senator Barack Obama's supporters watch CNN's election night coverage as they gather to celebrate the results at a bar on November 5, 2008 in Tel Aviv. Photo: David Silverman/Getty Images Other notable achievements during the 2008 elections were that the last sitting US senator to become president was John F. Kennedy in 1960. Obama also won in traditionally Republican strongholds, such as Virginia and Indiana. Indiana had not voted for a Democrat since President Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide victory in 1964.Obama and his vice-presidential candidate Biden won 365 of the 538 electoral votes and received 69 456 897 of the popular vote.
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