2008 United States presidential election

The election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Incumbent President Barack Obama decided to run for a second term and faced little opposition in the Democratic primaries probably due to being a popular President and having high approval ratings. The Republicans, recovering from the blowout of 2004, decided to nominate political outsider and famed billionaire Donald Trump. Obama once again ran a positive campaign by talking about the recent foreign and economic prosperity that he has been able to achieve in his first term. Trump meanwhile, ran a negative campaign like Bob Dole by attacking Obama for not lowering taxes enough and for cutting down on immigration to the United States. In the end, Obama won in a landslide and became the First Democrat to win re-election since FDR! The Democrats expanded on their majorities in both the House and Senate.