His campaign settled on a strategy: Kerry would underscore his decorated 1968–69 service as a navy lieutenant in Vietnam, background that contrasted favourably with President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard, to demonstrate that Kerry had superior qualifications to be in charge during perilous times.The late July Democratic convention in Boston became a paean to Kerry’s role in Vietnam. By one estimate total election spending increased by nearly a third, to $3.9 billion, since 2000. Shortly after midnight it appeared that Ohio belonged to Bush by about 135,000 votes—but tens of thousands of “provisional ballots” cast by voters whose registration was in question made the results “within the margin of litigation.” As most voters went to bed, it appeared possible the election would again be decided only after court battles.

He has proposed a major overhaul of the nation’s health care system, aimed at covering the nearly 45 million uninsured Americans, reducing premium costs for everyone else, and breaking what he asserted was “the stranglehold” that the biggest drug and insurance companies have on the health care market.Opinion polls taken in April 2007 differ widely from each other: Obama was listed in third place nationwide, 24 percent behind Hillary Clinton and 2 percent behind John Edwards.Polling analysts are expected to take note of whether opinion polling statistics regarding Obama prove to be accurate, or are ultimately subject to the so-called "At the end of March 2008, Obama became the first candidate to open a double-digit lead in his national Obama's fundraising prowess early on matched that of Hillary Clinton's and, financially speaking, stayed competitive with her.

Only three states switched colour from 2000 to 2004: New Hampshire went from red to blue, and Iowa and New Mexico shifted from blue to red. Obama won the Iowa caucuses with 38% of the vote, over Edwards by 30% and Clinton by 29%. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten.. Obama ist ein auf US-Verfassungsrecht spezialisierter Rechtsanwalt. The following table shows the pledged delegate votes awarded in the Super Tuesday states. The 2008 Republican presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. With Obama now leading by 164 pledged delegates and with only 217 pledged delegates left to be decided in the remaining contests, many pundits declared that the primary was effectively over. She narrowly won the Texas primary, while losing the Texas caucus.

…would seek the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination for 2008. Obama won 52.9% of the popular vote, while McCain gathered 45.7% of … The strategy backfired when Bush appeared on the defensive, finding it difficult to explain his positions and often repeating himself. This was seen as a win for Obama because of the Culinary Workers Union endorsement.Clinton finished first in the state delegate count on January 19, winning 51 percent of delegates to the state convention.On January 23, the Obama campaign filed an official letter of complaint with the Issues of race came to the forefront as campaigning began for the Around the same time, Hillary Clinton said regarding In part, the tension resulted from the historical coincidence of the first viable African American presidential candidate and the first viable woman candidate, running against each other in the same nomination race.On January 26, Obama won the South Carolina primary by a more than two-to-one margin over Clinton, gaining 55 percent of the vote to her 27 percent and Edwards' 18 percent.After his win in South Carolina, Obama received the endorsement of On February 18, Michelle Obama attracted criticism when during a campaign speech in Obama and Clinton were in a statistical dead heat in Texas, according to a poll released February 25, 2008.On February 25, 2008, during the hotly contested primaries in Texas and Ohio, Obama appeared at rallies in both Cincinnati and—for the first time in his career—in Dayton, Ohio. This led Obama to allege that the suit was filed in order to hurt his chances at the caucuses.

These pages are for the 2008 presidential primaries. In October 2007, Obama, Richardson, Biden, and Edwards withdrew their names from the Michigan primary ballot, under pressure from the DNC and voters in Iowa and New Hampshire.None of the top candidates campaigned in Florida or Michigan.