Timeline – 2008 (SIADD)

2008

 * November 4: In a close election decided by Pennsylvania, John McCain is elected President of the United States. Both McCain's victory speech and Obama's speech have a call of healing and coming together to begin.


 * November 5: In a close race, incumbent Senator Ted Stevens wins over Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich. Even with the corruption charges against him, Stevens won reelection and a movement for Stevens to resign from the Senate. Stevens would say that this would be resolved come January.


 * November 6: Longtime staffer and friend to President-Elect McCain, Mark Salter is chosen as Chief of Staff.


 * November 10: Senators and supporter Lindsey Graham is announced to be McCain's choice as UN Ambassador and Joe Lieberman was announced as his choice for Secretary of State.


 * November 11: The "Oracle of Omaha" Warren Buffet was chosen as Treasury Secretary as Lewis Eisenberg for Commerce Secretary.


 * November 12: Mitt Romney was chosen for the Housing and Urban Development position. The HUD position was the same position that his father George Romney had occupied from 1969 to 1973.


 * November 16: T. Boone Pickens was declared Energy Secretary and Debra W. Yong was chosen as Attorney General. She became the first Asian American Attorney General.


 * November 18: Former Speaker of the House and conservative icon, Newt Gingrich was chosen as the Interior Secretary in a suprise. This raised some eyebrows among staunch liberal Democrats in the House.


 * November 19: Governor Janet Napolitano of Arizona chose Representative John Shadegg, a Republican, to succeed John McCain's seat on account of McCain's election to the presidency.


 * November 26: Senator Barack H. Obama of Illinois confirmed to the press that he would be running for reelection to the Senate come the 2010 Senatorial Elections.


 * November 28: After a fairly long recount for the 2008 Minnesota Senatorial Election, Democratic challenger Al Franken was declared the winner over the incumbent Republican senator Norm Coleman. Al Franken's victory would give the Democrats a majority in the U.S. Senate, but fell short of reaching a super majority.

December

 * December 30: Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge was again chosen for the position to serve in McCain's administration.


 * December 7: On the 67th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, President-Elect McCain picked Senator Chuck Hagel to be the Veterans Affairs Secretary.


 * December 14: The FBI brought credible evidence that Governor Rod Blagojevich has been embezzling money. Soon after the Illinois Legislature began impeachment proceedings.


 * December 15: Governor Blagojevich went back to work as Governor as if nothing happened, saying that he was "innocent until proven guilty" to the press.


 * December 16: Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan began initiation of impeachment against Governor Blagojevich.


 * December 27: Israeli forces began "Operation:Cast Lead" and sent the Israeli Air Force to bomb targets in the Gaza Strip. This would be majorly about the terrorist group Hamas.


 * December 30: President-Elect McCain said that there must be mediation between Gaza and Israel on the grounds that more innocent Palestians are being killed in the attacks agaisnt Hamas and other terrorist groups.