election 2008

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 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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “election 2008”

• Effort To End Too Big To Fail Is Failing

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 535
  Almost three weeks ago, Senator Bernard Sanders introduced the Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Exist Act – S. 2746. At the end of last week, U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey introduced the same bill into the House of Representatives. The legislation would enable the government to escape its current state of ...
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• Obama Thanks Hollywood With Coveted Invites To First White House State Dinner

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 144
  EXCLUSIVE: If tradition stands, the details of the guest list will be revealed only a few hours before the Obama administrations first state dinner tomorrow.
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• NH AG won’t touch that hotpotato

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 454
  Also read Eligibility Update: FactCheck.org Doesn’t Do Forensics; NH SoS and Certificates; British Policeman on Eligibility at The Right Side of Life The Post & Emai l published REFUSES TO INVESTIGATE 2008 ELECTION FRAUD IN NEW HAMPSHIRE by John Charlton (Nov. 23, 2008) — New Hampshire Attorney ...
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• US Foreign Policy: Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 144
  When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that its not working.
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• US Foreign Policy: Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 144
  When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that its not working.
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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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• The audacity of hope, the timidity of success, the certainty of absolute fucking failure

  
  the defeatists! — Authority: 466
  Without change. When the change candidate doesnt deliver, what the hell are you supposed to think? Once more into the breach, dear friends? Or, what the fuck? I have been thinking about the "Fire Geithner!" movement for a while and not commenting because one bureaucratic-white-shoed -dipshit in a suit looks a lot ...
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• US Foreign Policy: Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 144
  When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that its not working.
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• The Right’s Rebirthing Pains

  
  On the Western Banks of the Shenandoah — Authority: 119
  In the aftermath of 2008 alot of conservatives seemed almost as if the life had been completely sucked out of them. Many could be found stumbling along, unshaven, hair akimbo, mumbling, “How could this happen? How could they have elected HIM?” I exaggerate some, yet the fact is that many conservatives were utterly ...
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• Video: SNL destroys Obama over spending

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 144
  "I am noticing that each of your plans to save money involves spending even more money."
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• Video: SNL destroys Obama over spending

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 144
  "I am noticing that each of your plans to save money involves spending even more money."
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• The Audacity to Win

  
  Lubbock Left — Authority: 118
  I’m about halfway through David Plouffe’s new book The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory , and I’m so jump-up-and-down excited about it that I have to share. The book has me reliving my own experience volunteering with the Obama campaign. I am enjoying ...
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• The Fate of the Noun, the Verb, and 9/11

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 435
  What does former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani have in the cards for possible future runs? All reliable sources have said that he has ruled out any attempt to unseat current New York Governor, David Patterson in 2010 race. Nevertheless, speculation is rampant about the possibility of a Guiliani challenge to Kirsten ...
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• Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, And Childless By Choice

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 742
  Sarah Palin wont go away, but perhaps Stupak-Pitts will. Also, childlessness by choice comes out of the closet.   Subscribe to RealityCast: RealityCast iTunes subscription RealityCast RSS feed Links in this episode: Its No Joke Nancy Pelosi discusses Stupak-Pitts vote Mitch McConnell talks about ...
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• Moments Of Tragic Disorder, The Death Of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  
  Nashville Past And Present — Authority: 131
  
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• Chapter Four – Going Rogue (Part 3 of 3)

  
  The Mudflats — Authority: 610
  Page 292 Before the debate a campaign consultant made a comment about her weird vocal inflections. She’s been talkin’ the same way for 44 years and she’s not going to change now. “Besides, I thought of all the money Tina Fey was making imitating me; I didn’t want to screw up her SNL thing by changing up on ...
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• Op-Ed Columnist: The Pit Bull in the China Shop

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 144
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• Palin Phenom Runs through Roanoke

  
  On the Western Banks of the Shenandoah — Authority: 119
  Although readers of this blog know that I remain skeptical of Sarah Palin’s long term political future, I still like her and her politics. I believe that she has strayed a bit too far from her initial image as a conservative reformer, though this was largely due to both the media’s attacks and the ensuing ...
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• I was talking to a friend of mine...

  
  the defeatists! — Authority: 466
  I dont like to talk politics with friends. We either sit there in an orgy of intellectual negative masturbation (accomplishes nothing, doesnt feel good) or I realize that they are complete fucking idiots. However, Ill talk culture and social science until the cows are butchered by Pigs guard duck and Sarah Palin ...
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• Absolute Hilarity... SNL has obamas number once again...

  
  AnnieNYC — Authority: 104
  
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