United States Presidential Election, 2012 (Jimmy is down!)

The United States presidential election of 2012 was the 57th quadrennial American presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. The Republican nominee incumbent President George W. Bush, and his running mate, Vice President Mitt Romney, were elected to a second term, defeating the Democratic nominee former U.S. senator and the election year's prior nominee, Barack Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, a long-time U.S. Senator from Delaware.

Bush secured the Republican nomination with no serious opposition after the 2008 election, and Obama also secured his party's nomination with no serious opposition.