Election campaign

New York junior Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had expressed interest in the 2008 United States presidential election since at least October 2002, drawing media speculation on whether she would become a candidate. No woman has ever won the nomination of a major party in the history of U.S. presidential elections. On January 20, 2007, she announced that she was forming an exploratory committee and filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to seek the nomination...

The Joe Biden presidential campaign, 2008 began when Senator Biden announced his candidacy for President of the United States on the January 7, 2007 edition of Meet the Press. He officially became a candidate on January 31, 2007 when he filed papers with the Federal Elections Commission. Biden had previously run for president in 1988, but failed to get the nomination of the Democratic Party. If elected Biden would have been the first sitting Senator and Roman Catholic to be president since John...

Mike Gravel, a former United States Senator from Alaska, on April 17, 2006, declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2008 election, in a speech to the National Press Club. His campaign gained an internet following and national attention due to outspoken debate appearances during 2007, but consistently showed little support in national polls. In the 2008 Democratic caucuses and primaries, he did not win any delegates. Out of the eight...

John Edwards is the former United States Senator from North Carolina and was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004. On December 28 2006, he announced his entry into the 2008 Presidential election in the city of New Orleans near sites devastated by Hurricane Katrina. On January 30, 2008, Edwards returned to New Orleans to announce that he was suspending his campaign for the Presidency. On May 14, 2008, he endorsed Barack Obama at a campaign event in Grand Rapids (MI). On December 28...

Mitt Romney was a Republican Party primary candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election. On January 3 2007, two days before he stepped down as governor of Massachusetts, Romney filed to form a presidential exploratory committee with the Federal Election Commission. Subsequently, on February 13, 2007, he formally announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in 2008. On February 7, 2008, two days after his rival John McCain posted strong gains in the Super...

John McCain, the senior American United States Senator from Arizona, staged his second candidacy for the presidency of the United States for the 2008 presidential election. His candidacy was in the works for a number of years, was informally announced on February 28, 2007 and was then formally announced on April 25, 2007. He emphasized that "America should never undertake a war unless we are prepared to do everything necessary to succeed." Should McCain win in 2008, he would be the oldest...

Ron Paul is a tenth-term Congressman, a physician, and a 2008 presidential candidate from Texas, seeking the nomination of the Republican Party. Initial opinion polls during the first three quarters of 2007 showed Ron Paul consistently receiving support from 3% or less of those polled. In the last quarter of 2007, Paul's support among likely Republican primary voters averaged around 7%. In 2008, Paul's support among Republican voters remained in the single digits, statistically tied with Alan...

Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign began in October 2005 when the “Draft Rudy Giuliani for President, Inc” organization was formed. The committee filed papers with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) on November 22, 2006. On February 5, 2007, Giuliani officially entered the 2008 U.S. presidential election by filing a "statement of candidacy" with the FEC. As the 2008 Republican presidential nomination field first formed, Senator John McCain was viewed as the front-runner. However,...

Al Gore's presidential campaign, 2000 details Mr. Gore's effort to win the presidency. In the 2000 election, Gore won the national popular vote, but lost the electoral college vote, after a bitter legal battle over disputed vote counts in the state of Florida. George W. Bush won the election on the electoral college vote of 271 to 266 (267 including faithless DC elector). The election was one of the most controversial in American history. Gore's daughter, Karenna Gore Schiff, worked on her...

This article is about the presidential campaign of George W. Bush, the incumbent President of the United States and winner of the 2004 Presidential Election. See George W. Bush for a detailed biography and information about his current presidency, and George W. Bush presidential campaign, 2000 for a description of his first presidential campaign. See United States presidential election, 2004 for general information on the 2004 election. George W. Bush's opponent was U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry (D...

Ralph Nader ran for the office of U.S. Presidency in the 2004 election, as he also had in several previous elections. In 1996 and 2000, Nader was the candidate of the Green Party; in the 2004 election, however, he ran as an independent candidate. He received 463,653 votes, for 0.4% of the total vote. Nader won the 2004 endorsement of the Reform Party USA, and thus appeared on the ballot as the Reform Party candidate in several states. In some states, Nader was on the ballot as an independent...

Alan Keyes announced his U.S. Presidential candidacy, running as a Republican Party candidate, on September 14, 2007 in an interview with radio show personality Janet Parshall. Keyes later tried to become the candidate of the Constitution Party in the same year. This is Keyes' third effort; he ran in the two election cycles prior to 2008: 1996 and 2000. On June 5, 2007 a draft movement was started entitled We Need Alan Keyes for President and formed a political action committee to encourage...