2008 United States presidential election in Arizona information
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2008 United States presidential election in Arizona
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November 4, 2008
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Turnout
77.69%
Nominee
John McCain
Barack Obama
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Democratic
Home state
Arizona
Illinois
Running mate
Sarah Palin
Joe Biden
Electoral vote
10
0
Popular vote
1,230,111
1,034,707
Percentage
53.39%
44.91%
County Results
McCain
50-60%
60-70%
Obama
50-60%
60-70%
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George W. Bush
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The 2008 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 4, 2008, and was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Arizona was won by Republican nominee and native son John McCain with an 8.48% margin of victory over Democrat Barack Obama. McCain had served as United States Senator from the state since 1987, and enjoyed high approval ratings. Prior to the election, sixteen of seventeen news organizations considered this a state McCain would win, or a red state. Some polls taken near Election Day in 2008 showed Democrat Barack Obama closer than expected to winning it, but these did not come to fruition, as McCain easily won Arizona and carried all but four of the state's 15 counties.[1] Nonetheless, this was closer than any of McCain's Senate campaigns.
Obama became the first Democrat to win the White House without winning Gila, Greenlee, La Paz, or Pinal Counties since Arizona statehood in 1912, as well as the first to do so without winning Navajo County since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Twelve years later, in 2020, Obama's running mate and former vice president Joe Biden won the state of Arizona, in part due to votes from supporters of McCain, who had an aggrieved relationship with Biden's opponent, then-incumbent president and Republican nominee Donald Trump, prior to McCain's death in 2018. This remains the last election where Arizona voted to the right of Missouri, Montana, South Dakota and Indiana.
^"RealClearPolitics - Election 2008 - Arizona". Retrieved December 20, 2008.
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