Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

was an Illinois State Senator

Illinois Senate

The Illinois Senate is the upper chamber of the Illinois General Assembly, the legislative branch of the government of the state of Illinois in the United States. The body was created by the first state constitution adopted in 1818. The Illinois Senate is made up of 59 senators elected from...

, United States Senator

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

 and is currently the 44th President of the United States

President of the United States

The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

. He has been involved in many elections, beginning in 1996.

Illinois Senate and U.S. House of Representatives elections (1996-2002)

Illinois Senate

Illinois Senate

The Illinois Senate is the upper chamber of the Illinois General Assembly, the legislative branch of the government of the state of Illinois in the United States. The body was created by the first state constitution adopted in 1818. The Illinois Senate is made up of 59 senators elected from...

, 13th district, 1996:

• Barack Obama (D) - 48,592 (82.16%)
• David Whitehead (Harold Washington Party) - 7,461 (12.62%)
• Rosette Caldwell Peyton (R) - 3,091 (5.23%)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 1998:

• Barack Obama (D) (inc.) - 45,486 (89.17%)
• Yesse B. Yehudah (R) - 5,526 (10.83%)

US House, Illinois's 1st district, 2000

Illinois's 1st congressional district election, 2000

The 2000 United States House of Representatives election for the 1st district in Illinois took place on November 7, 2000. While incumbent Democratic Representative Bobby Rush handily defeated his Republican opponent, Raymond Wardingley, this race is noteworthy for the primary challenge Rush...

 (Democratic primary), 2000:

• Bobby Rush
  Bobby Rush
  Bobby Lee Rush is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993. He is a member of the Democratic Party.The district is located principally on the South Side of Chicago. It is a minority-majority district and has a higher percentage of African Americans than any other congressional district in...
  
   (inc.) - 59,599 (61.03%)
• Barack Obama - 29,649 (30.36%)
• Donne E. Trotter - 6,915 (7.08%)
• George Roby - 1,501 (1.54%)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 2002:

• Barack Obama (inc.) - 48,717 (100.00%)

United States Senate election (2004)

Democratic primary for the United States Senate

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

 from Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

, 2004:

• Barack Obama - 655,923 (52.77%)
• Dan Hynes - 294,717 (23.71%)
• Blair Hull
  Blair Hull
  M. Blair Hull is an American businessman, investor, Democratic politician, and philanthropist.Hull founded Hull Trading Company in 1985 and served as the firm’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer before selling it to Goldman Sachs in 1999 for $531 million...
  
   - 134,453 (10.82%)
• Maria Pappas - 74,987 (6.03%)
• Gery Chico
  Gery Chico
  Gery Chico is a Chicago lawyer, public official, former Democratic primary candidate for United States Senate, and former candidate for Mayor of Chicago. Chico served as the Chief of Staff to Mayor Richard M. Daley from 1992 to 1995, and board president of the Chicago Public Schools from 1995 to...
  
   - 53,433 (4.30%)
• Nancy Skinner - 16,098 (1.30%)
• Joyce Washington - 13,375 (1.08%)
• Estella Johnson-Hunt (write-in) - 10 (0.00%)

United States Senate election in Illinois, 2004

United States Senate election in Illinois, 2004

The 2004 United States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 2, 2004. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald decided to retire after one term. The Democratic and Republican primary elections were held in March, which included a total of 15 candidates who combined to spend a...

:

• Barack Obama (D) - 3,598,277 (69.97%)
• Alan Keyes
  Alan Keyes
  Alan Lee Keyes is an American conservative political activist, author, former diplomat, and perennial candidate for public office. A doctoral graduate of Harvard University, Keyes began his diplomatic career in the U.S...
  
   (R) - 1,391,030 (27.05%)
• Albert J. Franzen (I) - 81,186 (1.58%)
• Jerry Kohn (LBT) - 69,276 (1.35%)
• Mark Kuhnke (R) (write-in) - 2,268 (0.04%)
• Scott Doddy (I) (write-in) - 339 (0.01%)
• Donald McArthur-Self (I) (write-in) - 134 (0.00%)
• Kathy Campbell (I) (write-in) - 129 (0.00%)
• Shaun Bill (I) (write-in) - 37 (0.00%)
• Marcus Hester (I) (write-in) - 23 (0.00%)

Presidential primaries (2008)

2008 Democratic presidential primaries

Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries

The results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries are the detailed outcomes of a series of contests by which members of the United States Democratic Party choose their candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. The contests are held in each of the fifty U.S. states, as well as...

:

Excluding penalized contests, only primary and caucuses votes:

• Barack Obama - 16,706,853
• Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...
  
   - 16,239,821
• John Edwards
  John Edwards
  Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in...
  
   - 742,010
• Bill Richardson - 89,054
• Uncommitted - 82,660
• Dennis Kucinich
  Dennis Kucinich
  Dennis John Kucinich is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He was furthermore a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections....
  
   - 68,482
• Joe Biden
  Joe Biden
  Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...
  
   - 64,041
• Mike Gravel
  Mike Gravel
  Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election....
  
   - 27,662
• Christopher Dodd
  Christopher Dodd
  Christopher John "Chris" Dodd is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period ending with the 111th United States Congress....
  
   - 25,300
• Others - 22,556

Including penalized contests:

• Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...
  
   - 18,225,175 (48.03%)
• Barack Obama - 17,988,182 (47.41%)
• John Edwards
  John Edwards
  Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in...
  
   - 1,006,275 (2.65%)
• Uncommitted - 299,610 (0.79%)
• Bill Richardson - 106,073 (0.28%)
• Dennis Kucinich
  Dennis Kucinich
  Dennis John Kucinich is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He was furthermore a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections....
  
   - 103,994 (0.27%)
• Joe Biden
  Joe Biden
  Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...
  
   - 81,641 (0.22%)
• Scattering - 44,348 (0.12%)
• Mike Gravel
  Mike Gravel
  Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election....
  
   - 40,251 (0.11%)
• Christopher Dodd
  Christopher Dodd
  Christopher John "Chris" Dodd is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period ending with the 111th United States Congress....
  
   - 35,281 (0.09%)

2008 Democratic delegate counts:

(2,118 delegates needed to secure nomination)

Pledged delegates"

• Barack Obama - 1,765
• Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...
  
   - 1,637
• John Edwards
  John Edwards
  Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in...
  
   - 4

Including superdelegate

Superdelegate

"Superdelegate" is an informal term commonly used for some of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention, the presidential nominating convention of the United States Democratic Party....

s:

• Barack Obama - 2,156 (52.79%)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...
  
   - 1,922 (47.06%)
• John Edwards
  John Edwards
  Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in...
  
   - 6 (0.15%)

2008 Democratic National Convention

2008 Democratic National Convention

The United States 2008 Democratic National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party where it adopted its national platform and officially nominated its candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. The convention was held in Denver,...

 (Presidential tally)

• Barack Obama - chosen by acclamation

Unfinished roll call (13 states, D.C. Guam

Guam

Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...

, American Samoa

American Samoa

American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa...

 and Democrats Abroad):

• Barack Obama - 3,189 (75.93%)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...
  
   - 1,011 (24.07%)

Other results

2008 New Hampshire Democratic Vice Presidential primary:

• Raymond Stebbins
  Raymond Stebbins
  Raymond C. "Ray" Stebbins is United States attorney and political activist, a member of the Democratic Party. He is best known as a winner of the Democratic New Hampshire Vice Presidential primary....
  
   - 50,485 (46.93%)
• William Bryk - 22,965 (21.35%)
• John Edwards
  John Edwards
  Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in...
  
  * - 10,553 (9.81%)
• Barack Obama* 6,402 (5.95%)
• Bill Richardson* (write-in) - 5,525 (5.14%)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...
  
  * (write-in) - 3,419 (3.18%)
• Joe Biden
  Joe Biden
  Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...
  
  * - 1,512 (1.41%)
• Al Gore
  Al Gore
  Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
  
  * - 966 (0.90%)
• Dennis Kucinich
  Dennis Kucinich
  Dennis John Kucinich is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He was furthermore a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections....
  
  * - 762 (0.71%)
• Bill Clinton
  Bill Clinton
  William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
  
  * - 388 (0.36%)
• John McCain
  John McCain
  John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....
  
  * - 293 (0.27%)
• Christopher Dodd
  Christopher Dodd
  Christopher John "Chris" Dodd is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period ending with the 111th United States Congress....
  
  * - 224 (0.21%)
• Ron Paul
  Ron Paul
  Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul is an American physician, author and United States Congressman who is seeking to be the Republican Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Paul represents Texas's 14th congressional district, which covers an area south and southwest of Houston that includes...
  
  * - 176 (0.16%)
• Jack Barnes, Jr.* - 95 (0.09%)
• Mike Gravel
  Mike Gravel
  Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election....
  
  * - 91 (0.09%)
• Joe Lieberman
  Joe Lieberman
  Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman is the senior United States Senator from Connecticut. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. Currently an independent, he remains closely affiliated with the party.Born in Stamford, Connecticut,...
  
  * - 67 (0.06%)
• Mitt Romney
  Mitt Romney
  Willard Mitt Romney is an American businessman and politician. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.The son of George W...
  
  * - 66 (0.06%)
• Mike Huckabee
  Mike Huckabee
  Michael "Mike" Dale Huckabee is an American politician who served as the 44th Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate in the 2008 United States Republican presidential primaries, finishing second in delegate count and third in both popular vote and number of states won . He won...
  
  * - 63 (0.06%)
• Rudy Giuliani
  Rudy Giuliani
  Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani KBE is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from New York. He served as Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001....
  
  * - 46 (0.04%)
• Darrel Hunter* - 20 (0.02%)

Vermont

Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...

 Liberty Union Party

Liberty Union Party

The Liberty Union Party of Vermont, founded in 1970 by former Congressman William H. Meyer, Peter Diamondstone and others, originated in the anti-war and People's Party movements of the late 1960s and defines itself as a nonviolent socialist party.-History:...

 Presidential primary, 2008:

• Brian P. Moore - 178 (44.61%)
• Barack Obama* - 25 (6.27%)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...
  
  * - 15 (3.76%)
• Ralph Nader
  Ralph Nader
  Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government....
  
  * - 5 (1.25%)
• Eugene Victor Debs* - 1 (0.25%)
• Patrick Leahy
  Patrick Leahy
  Patrick Joseph Leahy is the senior United States Senator from Vermont and member of the Democratic Party. He is the first and only elected Democratic United States Senator in Vermont's history. He is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Leahy is the second most senior U.S. Senator,...
  
  * - 1 (0.25%)
• John McCain
  John McCain
  John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....
  
  * - 1 (0.25%)
• Richard Norton
  Richard Norton
  Richard Norton is a martial artist, action film star, and stuntman. Norton worked as a bodyguard in the entertainment business before pursuing an acting career...
  
  * - 1 (0.25%)
• Ron Paul
  Ron Paul
  Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul is an American physician, author and United States Congressman who is seeking to be the Republican Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Paul represents Texas's 14th congressional district, which covers an area south and southwest of Houston that includes...
  
  * - 1 (0.25%)
• Morgan Phillips
  Morgan Phillips
  Morgan Walter Phillips was a colliery worker and trade union activist who became the General Secretary of the British Labour Party, involved in two of the party's election victories....
  
  * - 1 (0.25%)
• Others - 170 (42.61%)

Minnesota Independence Party Presidential caucus, 2008:

• Michael Bloomberg
  Michael Bloomberg
  Michael Rubens Bloomberg is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States...
  
   - 50 (50.00%)
• Barack Obama - 20 (20.00%)
• Ron Paul
  Ron Paul
  Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul is an American physician, author and United States Congressman who is seeking to be the Republican Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Paul represents Texas's 14th congressional district, which covers an area south and southwest of Houston that includes...
  
   - 20 (20.00%)
• Others - 10 (10.00%)

Connecticut for Lieberman

Connecticut for Lieberman

Connecticut for Lieberman is a Connecticut political party created by twenty-five supporters of Senator Joe Lieberman. The party was created to enable Lieberman to run for re-election following his defeat in the 2006 Connecticut Democratic primary...

 Presidential caucus, 2008:

• Barack Obama - 19 (82.61%)
• Ralph Nader
  Ralph Nader
  Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government....
  
   - 3 (13.04%)
• No nominee - 1 (4.35%)

MoveOn.org Presidential primary, 2008:

• Barack Obama - 197,444 (70.38%)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...
  
   - 83,084 (29.62%)

2008 United States Presidential Election

Popular vote:

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden
  Joe Biden
  Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...
  
   (Democratic
  Democratic Party (United States)
  The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
  
  ) - 69,456,897 (52.92%)
• John McCain
  John McCain
  John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....
  
  /Sarah Palin
  Sarah Palin
  Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice-presidency.She was...
  
   (Republican
  Republican Party (United States)
  The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
  
  ) - 59,934,786 (45.66%)
• Ralph Nader
  Ralph Nader
  Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government....
  
  /Matt Gonzalez
  Matt Gonzalez
  Matthew Edward Gonzalez is an American politician, lawyer, and activist prominent in San Francisco politics. He currently serves as chief attorney in the San Francisco Public Defender's office....
  
   (Independent) - 738,475 (0.56%)
• Bob Barr
  Bob Barr
  Robert Laurence "Bob" Barr, Jr. is a former federal prosecutorand a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1995 to 2003. Barr attained national prominence as one of the leaders of the impeachment of...
  
  /Wayne Allyn Root
  Wayne Allyn Root
  Wayne Allyn Root is an American politician, entrepreneur, television and radio personality, author and political commentator. He was the 2008 Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee. In June 2009 Richard Winger wrote he was the front runner for the 2012 Libertarian Presidential nomination...
  
   (Libertarian
  Libertarian Party (United States)
  The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects its brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration...
  
  ) - 523,686 (0.40%)
• Chuck Baldwin
  Chuck Baldwin
  Charles Obadiah "Chuck" Baldwin is an American politician and founder-pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. He was the presidential nominee of the Constitution Party for the 2008 U.S. presidential election and had previously been its nominee for U.S. vice president in 2004...
  
  /Darrell Castle
  Darrell Castle
  Darrell Castle is an American political figure, activist and attorney from Memphis, Tennessee, and was the vice presidential candidate of the Constitution Party in the 2008 United States presidential election.-Early life and education:...
  
   (Constitution
  Constitution Party (United States)
  The Constitution Party is a paleoconservative political party in the United States. It was founded as the U.S. Taxpayers' Party by Howard Philips in 1991. Phillips was the party's candidate in the 1992, 1996 and 2000 presidential elections...
  
  ) - 199,314 (0.15%)
• Cynthia McKinney
  Cynthia McKinney
  Cynthia Ann McKinney is a former US Congresswoman and a member of the Green Party since 2007. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives. In 2008, the Green Party nominated McKinney for President of the United States...
  
  /Rosa Clemente
  Rosa Clemente
  Rosa Alicia Clemente is a United States community organizer, independent journalist and hip-hop activist. She was the vice presidential running mate of 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election.Clemente was born and raised in South Bronx, New...
  
   (Green
  Green Party (United States)
  The Green Party of the United States is a nationally recognized political party which officially formed in 1991. It is a voluntary association of state green parties. Prior to national formation, many state affiliates had already formed and were recognized by other state parties...
  
  ) - 161,603 (0.12%)
• Other candidates - 226,908 (0.17%)

Electoral vote:

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden - 365 (28 states as well as Nebraska's 2nd congressional district
  Nebraska's 2nd congressional district
  Nebraska's 2nd congressional district encompasses the core of the Omaha metropolitan area. It includes all of Douglas County, which includes Omaha, and the urbanized areas of Sarpy County...
  
  , and the District of Columbia)
• John McCain/Sarah Palin - 173 (21 states carried plus, Nebraska's two At-large votes and Nebraska's 1st and 3rd congressional districts)