2008 United States presidential election in Delaware information
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2008 United States presidential election in Delaware
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November 4, 2008
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Nominee
Barack Obama
John McCain
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Arizona
Running mate
Joe Biden
Sarah Palin
Electoral vote
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Popular vote
255,459
152,374
Percentage
61.94%
36.92%
County Results
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Obama
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McCain
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60–70%
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George W. Bush
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The 2008 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 4, 2008, and was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Delaware was won by Democratic nominee Barack Obama with a 25.0% margin of victory, the best-ever result for a Democratic presidential candidate in Delaware as of 2020. Obama's large margin of victory was aided by his running mate, Joe Biden, a longtime U.S. senator from the state and the first Delawarean to appear on a national presidential ticket. At the same time, Biden was also running for a seventh term in the Senate, being elected during the same time he was elected vice president. During the campaign, Delaware was considered a safe blue state, and in the end only one county of Delaware's three counties, Sussex County, went for McCain, by a margin of approximately 7,000 votes or 8.58%.
Delaware was one of three states, along with rapidly left-trending Vermont and Obama's home state of Illinois, in which Obama outperformed Franklin D. Roosevelt in all four of his runs and Lyndon B. Johnson in his 1964 landslide.
The Socialist Workers Party appeared on the ballot making it the first time that a Marxist political party appeared on the presidential ballot since the Socialist Labor Party had appeared on it in the 1976 election.[1]
^"Socialist Workers On in Delaware for First Time Ever". Ballot Access News. July 10, 2008. Archived from the original on August 5, 2020.
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