Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate John McCain. In the 2008 presidential election Barack Obama received 365 electoral votes and John McCain received 173 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Obama 69,297,997 and McCain 59,597,520.
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George Bush had 271 electoral votes, carried 30 states, was popular by 50,456,002 and had 47.9 percent
Al Gore had 266 electoral votes, carried 20+ D.C states, was popular by 50,999,897 and had 48.4 percent
it was approximately 64% which is one of the lowest turnouts in the western world.
Not in the US- presidential election were held in 2004 and 2008 the next one will be in 2012. (The year of a presidential election is always a multiple of 4 .)
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Actually it was 252.
In 2004, George W. Bush (R) won Kentucky.
Presidential elections take place every four years. There was an election in 2004 (George Bush beat John Kerry) and in 2008 (Barack Obama beat John McCain). The next election will be in 2012.