2008 election

2008 saw elections around the world and throughout the year, from Georgia (January 1st) to Bangladesh (December 29th). Many of these elections marked crucial turning points for their constituencies, including a historic election in Nepal which abolished a 239-year-old royal dynasty.

But in the blogosphere, the 2008 election almost exclusively refers to the United States' presidential contest in which the Democratic candidate Barack Obama was the victor.

A historic election on several counts, this event saw the highest voter turnout (approximately 63%) in over 40 years. It was the first time that a woman (Hillary Clinton) and a black man were in direct competition for a major party nomination, and the first time in 56 years that neither a sitting President nor Vice-President entered the race. But the most significant factor for many Americans was that Obama became the first black man ever elected as President of the United States, beating out Republican war hero John McCain after a long and often heated campaign.

The Internet is widely acknowledged to have played a larger part in this contest than in any previously. Obama, along with other candidates, maintained a Twitter account and a Facebook page, using online connectivity to reach out to younger voters. The online community responded effusively, making the 2008 election easily the most-discussed topic of the year.

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  Off the Kuff — Authority: 145
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• Khan has an announcement

  
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• 8 November 09 (am)

  
  blueollie — Authority: 139
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• Why Democrats Are Winning the Health Care Battle—But Losing the War

  
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• The War We Can’t Win

  
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• Posts from Years Past: November

  
  Asian-Nation : Asian American News, Issues, & Current Events Blog — Authority: 118
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• Good News and Bad News on Elections and Health Care

  
  America's Right — Authority: 575
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• What’s wrong in Afghanistan?

  
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• Are Youth going more GOP?

  
  Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics — Authority: 532
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• Blonde Moment Of The Day

  
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• One Year After Obama's Election: Still Smarter… Than The Alternative

  
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• GRITtv Live: One Year Later, What’s Changed?

  
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  In a special one-hour live stream, we bring back many of our guests from last year’s election day show to discuss what’s changed, what’s stayed the same, and what we still hope to see happen under Obama. Elections around the country of course saw nowhere near the turnout of the presidential race, yet the ...
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• New WMC President Jehmu Greene on GRITtv - Special Live Show TODAY!

  
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  Look for new WMC President Jehmu Greene on Laura Flanders’ GRITtv today discussing the one-year anniversary of the election with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Mark Green, and Jane Hamsher, and on PBS’s To The Contrary this weekend, giving viewers a deeper look at the WMC.GRITtv will begin streaming LIVE at 12pm TODAY!
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• Barack Obama Elected President 1 Year Ago

  
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• Some Memorable Newspaper Headlines

  
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• Maine Voters First To License Medical Pot Shops

  
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• One Year Ago Today

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 768
  Who wants change? (photo by David Katz) I have a tiny, 750 square-foot house. But I’ve somehow made room for one of those enormous Obama “Hope” posters. You know the one – you’ve seen it a million times. This one sits framed in my kitchen – on it are the signatures of many of the volunteers I worked with ...
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• More thoughts about yesterday’s results

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 145
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• Sarah’s uncivil war

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 526
  Whoever is advising Sarah Palin (and ghost writing that Facebook page) has a clear strategy in mind: scour the landscape for “maverick” opportunities — issues and events that Sarah can be injected into, in order to gain her more attention from the media (which will report on virtually anything she does, every ...
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• Rising from GOP Ashes… the Conservative Party?

  
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  by JC It’s election day, and the thoughts on my mind, one year after Obama and democrats swept to victory and republicans went down in defeat, are thus: Will the conservative uprising in elections back east amount to anything more than a squabble in the GOP, and progressive democrats will succeed in wresting ...
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