2008 Democratic presidential candidates

Democratic presidential candidates, 2008

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Nominee Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Party Democratic Democratic Home state Illinois New York States carried 29 + D.C 21 Popular vote 17,584,692 17,857,501
Democratic Primary Results. Purple denotes Obama win, and gold a Clinton win.
Democratic presidential candidate before election John Kerry Democratic presidential candidate-elect Barack Obama

John Kerry

Barack Obama

This article contains lists of candidates associated with the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries for the 2008 United States presidential election.

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Senator Barack Obama

Barack Obama, born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. Senator from Illinois. A draft Obama movement began with his well-received 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address. Obama was the featured speaker at Iowa Senator Tom Harkin's annual steak fry, a political event favored by presidential hopefuls in the lead-up to the Iowa Caucus. Obama formally announced his candidacy on February 10, 2007.

On June 7, 2008, Obama became the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee when Clinton dropped out of the race. He had 2,025 delegates and was certain to reach the 2,118 delegates required to win the Democratic nomination. By the time of the convention, Obama had 1766.5 elected pledged delegates and the votes of 463 superdelegates.

Obama received the official Democratic presidential nomination from the Party's delegates at its 2008 National Convention in Denver, Colorado, held in August.

On November 4, Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States with 53% of the popular vote and 365 electoral votes. He assumed office on January 20, 2009 and is the first African American U.S. President.