2008 United States presidential election in Connecticut  The 2008 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 4, 2008, and was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Voters chose 7 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Connecticut was won by Democratic nominee Barack Obama with a 22.4% margin of victory. Connecticut was 1 of the 6 states that had every county—including traditionally Republican Litchfield County—go for Obama, the others being Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Connecticut has not voted for a Republican presidential nominee since 1988 when the state was carried by George H.W. Bush over Michael Dukakis. There were 16 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day:   Barack Obama won every single poll taken in the state, and every one of them by a double-digit margin of victory. John McCain raised a total of $3,966,985. Barack Obama raised $9,727,617. Obama spent $730,335 while McCain spent nothing on the state. Neither campaign visited the state. Connecticut is a part of New England, an area of the country that has recently turned into a Democratic stronghold. The state went Republican in almost every election from 1952 to 1988, the exceptions being the three that took place in the 1960s. However, Bill Clinton narrowly carried it in 1992, and the state has not been seriously contested since. McCain ceded the state to Obama early on, despite Independent Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman's endorsement. In 2006, Democrats knocked off two incumbent Republicans and picked up two U.S. House seats in CT-02 and CT-05 (Joe Courtney and Chris Murphy, respectively). Although then-Governor M. Jodi Rell and Lieutenant Governor Michael Fedele were both moderate Republicans, all other statewide offices were held by Democrats. Democrats also enjoyed a supermajority status in both chambers of the Connecticut state legislature. In 2008, Democrat Jim Himes defeated incumbent Republican Christopher Shays, who was at the time the only Republican member of the U.S. House from New England, for the U.S. House seat in Connecticut's 4th congressional district. This was largely because Obama carried the district with a staggering 60% of the vote—one of his best performances in a Republican-held district. Shays' defeat meant that for the first time in almost 150 years, there were no Republican Representatives from New England.