The United States Presidential election of 2008 was held on Tuesday November 4, 2008. The Democratic Party’s nominee was Barack Obama, the junior United States Senator from Illinois. The Republican Party’s nominee was John McCain, the senior United States Senator from Arizona.At a time of war and economic crisis, voters across the country were fed up with the Republican administration gravitated toward the younger, more charismatic candidate who based his campaign on hope and change. McCain also tried to position himself as an candidate of change. This election has been long and hard. Four decades after Martin Luther King proclaimed his vision to a racially divided nation, Americans took a great step forward in electing Obama as their first black president. Barack Obama completed a journey last night that had once been unthinkable, becoming the first African-American president in U.S. history and raising hopes this nation had entered a new, post-racial era. Obama sealed his victory with a daunting, 182-vote lead in the Electoral College, with five states still outstanding. The popular vote was with Obama winning 51 to 47 percent. Obama won the number of electors necessary to be elected President. He is the president-elect and will be inaugrated on January 20, 2009.
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