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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• NH AG won’t touch that hotpotato

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 454
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• Doug Hoffman race, Sequoia voting machine, Election fraud?, NY District 23, Beta test, Pilot program, Leftists fraud, Princeton University study, Voting machine fraud

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 583
  “You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”… Abraham Lincoln   Early in the 2008 election cycle there was widespread concern about voter fraud and intimidation. It is believed by many, including ...
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• Reagan Never Went Rogue

  
  New Majority — Authority: 622
  As Sarah Palin embarks on a publicity tour for her book, conservative commentators have again taken to likening the former Alaska governor to the GOP’s revered conservative icon Ronald Reagan.  Palin, like Reagan, brands herself as an articulate conservative. Both Palin and Reagan were governors from Western ...
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• Oh, and avoid Blakemore, too

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 148
  We already know why you should stay away from Steven Hotze . But Allen Blakemore is the Horace and Jasper to Hotze’s Cruella de Vil , and the same warning applies to him as well. But don’t take my word for it, listen to a dissatisfied customer of Blakemore’s. In 2005 Hotze endorsed George Hittner in a ...
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• Right-Wing Insanity

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 432
  This is just crazy:The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election — instead, ACORN stole it.[...]The poll asked this question: “Do you think that Barack Obama legitimately won ...
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• Are Republicans Really This Stupid ?

  
  jobsanger — Authority: 148
  I knew there was a segment of the Republican Party that really wasnt too bright. All you have to do is look at the teabaggers to know that. But I have to admit that Im shocked to see that the stupidity extends to more than half of the party. Public Policy Polling has revealed that in its poll 52% of GOP voters ...
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• Sarah Palin Returns to Indiana

  
  The Hoosierpundit — Authority: 479
  The cartoon might be more accurate if it showed them standing in line in the rain. From the Courier-Journal : Hundreds of people lined up Thursday at stores in Fort Wayne and Noblesville for a chance of meeting Sarah Palin. Holding her 19-month-old son Trig, Palin climbed off a bus shortly before 6 p.m. at ...
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• Hoffman: ACORN Stole NY-23; GOP Majority ACORN Stole the 2008 Presidential Election!

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  NY-23s failed Conservative Party Congressional candidate, Doug Hoffman now says he was "forced to concede" (though its not clear who forced him, and the concession, as BRAD BLOG readers know, has no legal standing in any case, and, as we noted last week, neither do the voters of New York for the most part, at this ...
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• GOP Fearmongering Succeeds in Casting Doubt on Legitimacy of the Electoral Process

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 766
  (photo by votefx) The Republican Party has engaged in a decades-long project to portray any Democratic electoral gains as fraudulent, chipping away at the legitimacy of any Democratic politician. A new poll by a Democratic firm shows that these efforts have paid off. Public Policy Polling finds that a majority of ...
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• Poll: Majority Of Republicans Don’t Believe Obama Won 2008 Election Legitimately

  
  Below The Beltway — Authority: 683
  According to a new poll from Public Policy Polling, a majority of Republicans do not believe that President Obama won the 2008 Election legitimately: PPP’s newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with ...
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• Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think ACORN Stole the 2008 Election

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 440
  The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it.
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• My Notes from David Plouffes Book - The Audacity to Win Part 1

  
  PardonMyFrench — Authority: 128
  You long time readers know that as part of Connell Donatelli I had a 3rd row seat to Senator McCains Presidential run starting from online marketing his Straight Talk America PAC, through the Primaries including the summer 2007 blowup, and through the General Election.  I was lucky to be part of a small group that ...
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• McCain contra Palin

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 597
  By Michael J.W. Stickings Understandably, John McCain is pushing back against Sarah Palins vindictive criticism of the McCain team in her memoir, Going Rogue : Theres been a lot of dust flying around in the last few days and I just wanted to mention that I have the highest regard for Steve Schmidt and ...
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• 18 November 09 night quickies

  
  blueollie — Authority: 140
  Sarah Palin: A diary at Daily Kos sees her as your typical moronic wingnut sees her : Each time I read a diary or a comment that wonders out loud how someone as “stupid” as Sarah Palin could be appealing to anyone, I shake my head in disbelief. In 2004, this website was clogged up with comments and diaries ...
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• Sarah Palin Still Misses The Mark

  
  RedStateEclectic — Authority: 443
  I think of Sarah Palin in largely the same way I think of a handsome ex-beau: a huge disappointment once he opened his mouth. Before McCain pulled her up onto the national stage, Palins name was occasionally tossed around as a libertarian-leaning Republican. Heck, she even said something nice about Ron Paul! We had ...
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  Nevada Thunder — Authority: 120
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• Another McCain Aide Calls Palin’s Book “Total Fiction”

  
  Below The Beltway — Authority: 683
  This time, it’s Nicole Wallace: NEW YORK - Former McCain campaign senior adviser Nicolle Wallace says Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue” is “based on fabrications,” and that the basis for Palin’s depictions of her and former McCain campaign director Steve Schmidt as villains “took place entirely in ...
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• Nicolle Wallace Calls Palin Book “Fiction”

  
  Bucks Right — Authority: 437
  Steaming pile of campaign loss Nicolle Wallace, whose communications acumen while working for the 2008 McCain campaign led the war hero to a decisive loss against a socialist with ties to a radical preacher and domestic terrorist, says Sarah Palin’s new book is a work of “fiction.”Wallace was chiefly responsible ...
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• When it comes to Sarah Palin, blame John McCain

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 597
  By Michael J.W. Stickings Sometimes Andrew Sullivan is simply on fire -- as he is here, getting to the root cause of the whole Palin phenomenon : The WSJ and TWS have long ago lost any intellectual credibility. They use sophism to maintain power. Their cynicism and/or denial mechanisms are deeper than ...
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• Sarah Palin is equivalent to two words, "A LIAR" (Video)

  
  This Week With Barack Obama — Authority: 143
  Truly, this woman lies like the running water out of your tap and just dont give a damn. When you write a book, folks do VETT IT, along with what you said, like, last year as a VP candidate, and it is on tape? Lord, she is one woman destroying machine and that is destroying herself. And why bring Tina Fey back in ...
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