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2. Barack Obama has won more popular votes than any Democratic candidate for president in historyâexcept Barack Obama in 2008. 3. Barack Obama is the first Democratic president to win more than 50 percent of the popular vote in a re-election run since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944. 4. Barack Obama is the only Democratic candidate for president since FDR to twice win more than 50 percent of the national vote. 5. Barack Obama has, in both of his presidential runs, won a higher percentage of the national vote than any Democratic nominee since Lyndon Johnson in his 1964 landslide victory.
Democrat Barack Obama, then junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain. Nine states changed allegiance from the 2004 election. Each had voted for the Republican nominee in 2004 and contributed to Obama's sizable Electoral College victory.The selected electors from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia voted for President and Vice President of the United States on December 15, 2008.Those votes were tallied before a joint session of Congress on January 8, 2009. Obama received 365 electoral votes, and McCain 173.he 2008 election was the first in 56 years in which neither an incumbent president nor a vice president ran â Bush was constitutionally limited from seeking a third term by the Twenty-second Amendment; Vice President Dick Cheney chose not to seek the presidency.