United States Presidential Election, 2008 (The FDR Amendment)

The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Democratic Party nominees incumbent president John F. Kennedy Jr. and his running mate Al Gore defeated Republican Party nominees John McCain, a long-time and current U.S. Senator from Arizona, and his running mate Sarah Palin, a Governor of Alaska.

McCain secured the Republican nomination by March 2008, but the Democratic nomination was marked by a sharp contest between Kennedy and initial front-runner Senator Barack Obama with Kennedy not securing the nomination until early June. Campaigning had focused heavily on the Great Recessionand a major financial crisis that peaked in September 2008.