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”

• Voices from the Flats – Ship Bright

  
  The Mudflats — Authority: 586
  Ship Bright started his Fresh[water] ideas for a thirsty planet blog this past July and now has readers in over 113 countries and growing. Inspired and tutored by “Mudflats” herself, Fresh[water] ideas for a thirsty planet is devoted to educating and inspiring people from all walks of life around the world to ...
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• Audit Finds TARP Program Effective

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 143
  Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner was criticized in an independent review of the government’s financial bailout program.
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• Sean Hannity, Obama birth certificate, Hannity Radio Show, Sarah Palin, Birth certificate fair question, Fox, Obama not natural born citizen, World Net Daily, Obama attorneys

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 558
  Sean Hannity, yesterday, December 8, 2009, on the Hannity Radio Show, set a caller straight about questioning Obama’s birth certificate. Hannity stated that sites like World Net Daily were just doing due diligence when  they questioned the birth certificate. “Sean Hannity on Fox in July 2009 reveals that Major ...
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• Year-End Audit Finds TARP Program Effective

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 143
  Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner was criticized in an independent review of the government’s financial bailout program.
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• President Obama told me to stop ‘demeaning’ him, says Rep. Conyers

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 143
  President Barack Obama recently called Rep. John Conyers Jr. to express his frustrations with the Judiciary Committee chairman’s criticism. Read more...
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• Immaculate Conception Day: 16 Catholic Senators vote for taxpayer funded abortions

  
  http://fratres.wordpress.com — Authority: 465
  16 Catholic Senators voted to force taxpayers to fund abortion on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception… H/T Jack Smith   The Catholic Key Twitter..   15 Dems 1 Rep: Menendez (D-NJ) Gillibrand (D-NY) Reed (D-RI) Leahy (D-VT) Murray (D-WA) Cantwell (D-WA) Landrieu (D-LA) Collins ...
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• Shocker polls: That Sarah Palin-Barack Obama gap melts to 1 point

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 143
  The Republicans favorable rating is 46%; the Democrats job approval is 47%.
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• Shocker polls: That Sarah Palin-Barack Obama gap melts to 1 point

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 143
  The Republicans favorable rating is 46%; the Democrats job approval is 47%.
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• Kerchner V Obama and Congress, Support Kerchner lawsuit, Charles Kerchner CDR USNR, Attorney Mario Apuzzo, US Constitution, Chief Justice Marshall, Marbury V Madison, Obama birth certificate, Father Kenyan British, Barack Obama not natural born citizen, N

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 558
  “Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.” “So if a law be in opposition to the ...
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• Was Democrats’ Health Care Strategy Written In Federal Prison?

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 143
  On August 31, I headed to the health care town hall meeting of my congressional representative, Jan Schakowsky (D-IL).
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• In Polls, Much Opposition to Health Care Plan Is From Left

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 143
  Dont know why I didnt catch this earlier, but it strikes me as fairly important.Ipsos/McClatchy put out a health care poll two weeks ago.
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• A gubernatorial threefer

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 148
  Debra Medina made her filing for Governor today as well, and she hopes to be allowed in the clubhouse when the big kids get together to play. “Texans deserve a Governor who is more interested in the needs of Texans,” campaign manager Penny Langford Freeman said in a statement. “We are proud to have a ...
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• Op-Ed Columnist: An Affordable Truth

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 143
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• Op-Ed Columnist: An Affordable Truth

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 143
  Paul Krugman
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• Lt Col Donald Sullivan V NC Board of Elections, Elaine Marshall, NC Secretary of State, Update, December 7, 2009, Obama eligibility, Obama Kenyan born

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 558
   Here is the latest update December 7, 2009, from Lt. Col. Donald Sullivan, plaintiff in a lawsuit against North Carolina Board of Elections, and Elaine F. Marshall, Secretary of State For North Carolina. Following the update is a copy of the lawsuit. “Sullivan v. Secretary of State for North Carolina, 08CVS1076 ...
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• No Firm Plans for a U.S. Exit in Afghanistan

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 143
  Seeking to blunt criticism of the president’s war-strategy speech, the Obama administration sent a message that U.S. troops could remain in Afghanistan for a long time.
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• Obama birth certificate, Lou Dobbs, Palin says fair question, Proof positive, Obama not eligible, Billboard, Barack Obama not natural born citizen, US Constitution, Father Kenyan British, No birth certificate, Obama spends millions to avoid

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 558
  INTERNET BILLBOARD   Article II, Sec. 1, cl. 5 of the US Constitution “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President. . .” From the 20th Amendment to the US Constitution. “or if ...
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• No Firm Plans for a U.S. Exit in Afghanistan

  
  Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority: 143
  Seeking to blunt criticism of the president’s war-strategy speech, the Obama administration sent a message that U.S. troops could remain in Afghanistan for a long time.
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• Biking for Obama: One-Year Reflection

  
  young voices — Authority: 425
  A version of this post was first published at BikingforObama.com BY RYAN BOWEN This week marks the one-year anniversary of that fateful Tuesday last December when I took off on my bicycle from Los Angeles en route to see President Obamas inauguration in Washington D.C. to document this historic moment in our ...
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• Apparently When You Are "Going Rogue" That Means Bravely Running Away From The Local Media

  
  Middle Border Sun — Authority: 492
  To paraphrase Monty Python and the the Holy Grail: Brave, brave Gov. Palin; She bravely ran away. As I noted yesterday, I figured our local scribes and newsreaders would get at least some chance to ask Sarah Palin a softball question or two before she dribbled Sharpie ink on her new coloring book for ...
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