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Revision as of 03:02, 13 November 2023 edit 109.54.167.65 (talk) False! John McCain won the state of Kentucky by a 16.22% margin of victory not by a 16.23% margin of victory because Barack Obama received 41.15% of the vote when he lost Kentucky to John McCain not 41.14% of the vote. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit ← Previous edit		Latest revision as of 07:54, 4 June 2024 edit undo Cpotisch (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 5,854 edits mNo edit summary Tag: Visual edit
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Line 1: {{Short description\|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is already sufficiently detailed; see [[WP:SDNONE]] --> ~~{{Short description\|Election in Kentucky}}~~ {{Use mdy dates\|date=September 2023}} {{main\|2008 United States presidential election}} Line 34: \| [[File:2008 United States presidential election in Kentucky election by Congressional District.svg\|380px]] \| Congressional District Results \| [[File:2008 KY Pres.svg\|380px]] \| Precinct Results }} \| map_caption = Line 44 ⟶ 46: {{legend\|#d40000\|70-80%}} {{legend\|#aa0000\|80-90%}} {{legend\|#800000\|90-100%}} {{col-2}} '''Obama''' Line 49 ⟶ 52: {{legend\|#86b6f2\|50-60%}} {{legend\|#4389e3\|60-70%}} {{legend\|#1666CB\|70–80%}} {{legend\|#0645B4\|80–90%}} {{legend\|#002B84\|90-100%}} {{col-3}} '''Tie/No Data''' {{legend\|#D4C4DC}} {{legend\|#808080}} {{col-end}} \| title = President Line 60 ⟶ 70: The '''2008 United States presidential election in Kentucky''' took place on November 4, 2008, and was part of the [[2008 United States presidential election]]. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the [[United States Electoral College\|Electoral College]], who voted for [[President of the United States\|president]] and [[Vice President of the United States\|vice president]]. [[Kentucky]] was won by Republican nominee [[John McCain]] by a 16.22% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state McCain would win, or otherwise a [[Red states and blue states\|red state]]. In the primaries, [[Hillary Clinton]] slightly defeated McCain in hypothetical polls for ~~the Bluegrass State~~Kentucky. Once [[Barack Obama]] secured the Democratic nomination, Kentucky was reclassified as safe for the GOP. In the end, Kentucky voted for McCain with 57.40% of the vote. Obama did, however, improve on [[John Kerry]]'s performance by two points. This was the first time since [[1960 United States presidential election in Kentucky\|1960]] that Kentucky did not vote for the winning candidate in a presidential election. This was the first time ever that [[Floyd County, Kentucky\|Floyd]] and [[Knott County, Kentucky\|Knott]] Counties voted for the Republican candidate, as well as the first time since [[1908 United States presidential election in Kentucky\|1908]] that [[Breathitt County, Kentucky\|Breathitt County]] voted for the Republican candidate. As such, Obama became the first Democrat to ever win the presidency without carrying numerous historically Democratic counties, primarily in the [[Eastern Kentucky Coalfield\|Eastern Coalfield]], Bluegrass, and [[Jackson Purchase]] regions. As of [[2020 United States presidential election in Kentucky\|2020]], this remains the last time that a Democratic presidential nominee has won over 40% of the vote in Kentucky. ==Primaries== Line 123 ⟶ 133: \|{{USRaceRating\|Likely\|R}} \|- \|Rasmussen Reports<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Election 2008: Electoral College Update - Rasmussen ~~Reports™~~Reports\|url=http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/election_2008_electoral_college_update\|access-date=2016-09-22\|website=www.rasmussenreports.com}}</ref> \|{{USRaceRating\|Safe\|R}} \|} Line 142 ⟶ 152: Since 1964, Kentucky has only gone Democratic three times--[[Jimmy Carter]] in [[1976 United States presidential election\|1976]] and [[Bill Clinton]] in [[1992 United States presidential election\|1992]] and [[1996 United States presidential election\|1996]], both of whom were [[White Anglo-Saxon Protestant\|White Anglo Saxon Protestants]] (WASPs) from the South, whereas Obama was an African American "big-city liberal" from [[Chicago]]. (Similar socio-cultural dynamics existed in other Southern and [[Appalachia]]n states with a large ancestral Democratic base, such as [[2008 United States presidential election in Tennessee\|Tennessee]], [[2008 United States presidential election in West Virginia\|West Virginia]], and [[2008 United States presidential election in Arkansas\|Arkansas]].) In the 2008 primary, ~~exits~~exit polls conducted found that 30 percent of Clinton supporters opted not to vote for Obama in the general election, 40% would vote McCain and the rest would support Obama in the general election. Several counties in the southeastern part of the state swung Republican and went to McCain as solidly Democratic Floyd and Knott counties voted Republican for the first time ever, and Breathitt County voted Republican for the first time since 1908. Obama decided to not spend campaign funds on Kentucky and instead went to more viable battleground states like North Carolina and Indiana instead. McCain won Kentucky by a margin of 16.22 points on election day and performed slightly worse than George Bush in 2004. Obama improved upon Kerry's performance in big cities and urban areas while McCain improved upon Bush in rural areas. Kentucky was the first state called for either candidate. At the same time, incumbent Republican [[United States Senate\|U.S. Senator]] [[Mitch McConnell]], who also served as [[Party leaders of the United States Senate\|Senate Minority Leader]] at the time, was just narrowly [[2008 United States Senate election in Kentucky\|reelected]] with 52.97% of the vote to Democrat [[Bruce Lunsford]]'s 47.03%. Republicans also held onto an open seat vacated by Ron Lewis in [[Kentucky's 2nd congressional district\|Kentucky's 2nd Congressional District]]. At the state level, however, Democrats picked up two seats in the [[Kentucky House of Representatives]].