List of candidates in the United States presidential election, 2008

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The following are lists of candidates in the 2008 United States presidential election. Candidates who are not on any state ballots, withdrew from the race, suspended their presidential campaign, or failed to earn their party's nomination are listed separately.

Contents 1 Party nominees 2 Ballot access 2.1 Guam 3 Primary and convention candidates 3.1 Democratic Party primary ballot access 3.2 Republican Party primary ballot access 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Party nominees

All candidates in the table below were on the ballot in multiple states. Those who were on the ballot in enough states to win a majority in the U.S. Electoral College are marked in bold. Candidates who were on the ballot in no more than one state are listed in the next section.

Ron Paul was on the ballot in Louisiana with Barry Goldwater, Jr. on the Louisiana Taxpayers Party ticket^[1] and in Montana with Michael Peroutka on the Constitution Party of Montana ticket, even though the latter is associated with the national Constitution Party.^[2] Paul's supporters also qualified him to receive write-in votes in California. Paul was no longer actively running for president when he attained ballot status and asked to be removed. His request was denied by the Montana Secretary of State, because the request was sent to him too late.^[3]

Presidential candidate/running mate	Party	Campaign site
Barack Obama/Joe Biden (campaign)	Democratic, South Carolina United Citizens, New York Working Families[4]	barackobama.com
John McCain/Sarah Palin (campaign)	Republican, New York Independence, New York Conservative	johnmccain.com
Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez (campaign)	Independent, Independence-Ecology,[5] Peace and Freedom, Michigan Natural Law, Delaware Independent, Oregon Peace, New York Populist[4]	votenader.org
Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root (campaign)	Libertarian	bobbarr2008.com
Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente (campaign)	Green	votetruth08.com
Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (campaign)	Constitution, Kansas Reform, Virginia Independent Green	baldwin2008.com
Alan Keyes/Brian Rohrbough (campaign)	Independent, America's Independent	alankeyes.com
Gloria La Riva/Eugene Puryear	Socialism & Liberation	votepsl.org
Brian Moore/Stewart Alexander	Socialist, Vermont Liberty Union	votesocialist2008.org
Róger Calero/Alyson Kennedy	Socialist Workers	themilitant.com
Charles Jay/Thomas L. Knapp	Boston Tea	CJ08.com
Thomas Stevens/Alden Link	Objectivist	objectivistparty.us
Gene Amondson/Leroy Pletten	Prohibition	geneamondson.com

[edit] Ballot access

The two major parties in the United States, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, had ballot access in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

Each state sets its own requirements for candidates to gain ballot access. In some cases it is easier for party nominees to gain ballot access than for independent candidates, so Ralph Nader's independent campaign is associated with parties (pre-existing or newly formed) in some states: PF is the Peace and Freedom Party, NLP is the Natural Law Party, IEP is the Independent-Ecology Party, and IP is the Independent Party. In Kansas, Chuck Baldwin's campaign is associated with the Kansas Reform Party^[6] after a legal challenge had been brought to recognize national Reform Party candidate Ted Weill on the ballot.^[7]

George Phillies appeared on the ballot in New Hampshire with the label "Libertarian", with Chris Bennett as his running mate.

Candidates who had ballot access to enough electoral votes to win the presidency

	Electoral Votes	Nader	Libertarian (Barr)	Constitution (Baldwin)	Green (McKinney)
States + D.C.	51	46 (50)	45 (47)	37 (49)	32 (49)
Electoral votes (EV)	538	456 (531)	503 (510)	318 (516)	368 (528)
Percent of EV	100%	84.8% (98.7%)	93.5% (94.8%)	59.1% (95.9%)	68.4% (98.1%)
Alabama[8]	9				(write-in)
Alaska[9]	3				(write-in)
Arizona[10]	10			(write-in)
Arkansas[11]	6
California[12]	55	PF		(write-in)
Colorado[13]	9
Connecticut[14]	7	IEP		(write-in)	(write-in)
Delaware[15]	3	IP
Florida[16]	27	IEP
Georgia[17]	15	(write-in)		(write-in)	(write-in)
Hawaii[18]	4	IEP
Idaho[19]	4				(write-in)
Illinois[20]	21
Indiana[21]	11	(write-in)		(write-in)	(write-in)
Iowa[22]	7	PF
Kansas[23]	6				(write-in)
Kentucky[24]	8				(write-in)
Louisiana[25]	9
Maine[26]	4		(write-in)	(write-in)
Maryland[27]	10	IEP
Massachusetts[28]	12
Michigan[29]	17	NLP
Minnesota[30]	10
Mississippi[31]	6
Missouri[32]	11				(write-in)
Montana[33]	3			(write-in)	(write-in)
Nebraska[34]	5
Nevada[35]	5
New Hampshire[36]	4			(write-in)	(write-in)
New Jersey[37]	15
New Mexico[38]	5	IEP
New York[39]	31			(write-in)
North Carolina[40]	15	(write-in)			(write-in)
North Dakota[41]	3				(write-in)
Ohio[42]	20
Oklahoma[43]	7
Oregon[44]	7
Pennsylvania[45]	21			(write-in)	(write-in)
Rhode Island[46]	4
South Carolina[47]	8
South Dakota[48]	3
Tennessee[49]	11
Texas[50]	34	(write-in)		(write-in)	(write-in)
Utah[51]	5
Vermont[52]	3				(write-in)
Virginia[53]	13
Washington[54]	11
West Virginia[55]	5
Wisconsin[56]	10
Wyoming[57]	3				(write-in)
District of Columbia[58]	3		(write-in)	(write-in)

Other third party candidates

Notes:

• Since Socialist Workers party candidate Róger Calero was constitutionally disqualified to be President, in some states the Socialist Workers Party had James Harris (JH) listed on the ballot.

	Electoral Votes	Prohibition (Amondson)	Socialist Workers (Calero)	Boston Tea (Jay)	America's Independent (Keyes)	Socialism and Liberation (La Riva)	Socialist (Moore)	Objectivist (Stevens)
States + D.C.	51	3	10 (11)	3 (7)	3 (8)	12	8 (30)	2
EV	538	45	125 (180)	47 (75)	91 (168)	137	102 (338)	36
% of EV	100%	8.4%	23.2% (33.5%)	8.7% (13.9%)	16.9% (31.2%)	25.5%	19.7% (62.8%)	6.7%
AL	9						(write-in)
AK	3						(write-in)
AZ	10			(write-in)
AR	6
CA	55		(JH write-in)
CO	9		JH
CT	7						(write-in)
DE	3						(write-in)
FL	27		JH
GA	15
HI	4
ID	4						(write-in)
IL	21
IN	11						(write-in)
IA	7		JH
KS	6						(write-in)
KY	8				(write-in)		(write-in)
LA	9		JH
ME	4
MD	10			(write-in)	(write-in)		(write-in)
MA	12
MI	17						(write-in)
MN	10						(write-in)
MS	6
MO	11
MT	3			(write-in)
NE	5						(write-in)
NV	5
NH	4						(write-in)
NJ	15
NM	5
NY	31						(write-in)
NC	15						(write-in)
ND	3
OH	20				(write-in)
OK	7
OR	7						(write-in)
PA	21						(write-in)
RI	4						(write-in)
SC	8
SD	3
TN	11
TX	34				(write-in)		(write-in)
UT	5			(write-in)	(write-in)
VT	3
VA	13						(write-in)
WA	11		JH				(write-in)
WV	5
WI	10
WY	3						(write-in)
DC	3

Other candidates

The tickets below were on the ballot in no more than one state. Those appearing on a single state's ballot are in bold, all others are write-in candidates. Those without party labels are independents. Some do not have vice-presidential candidates.

• Donald K. Allen/Christopher D. Borcik (Ohio, Maryland)
• Jonathan Allen/Jeffrey Stath (Heartquake '08—Colorado, write-in in Arizona, Georgia, Montana, Ohio, and Texas)^[59]
• Jose M. Aparicio (Maryland)
• Lawson Bone (Indiana, Maryland, and Utah)
• Jeff Boss/Andrea Marie Psoras (Vote Here—New Jersey)
• Ted Brown, Sr. (Maryland)
• Santa Claus (West Virginia)^[60]
• James D. Criveau (Maryland)
• Richard Duncan/Ricky Johnson (Ohio)
• Michael Faith (Indiana)
• James R. Germalic/Martin Wishnatsky (Ohio)
• Mark Graham (Utah)
• Leonard Habermehl (Kentucky)
• RaeDeen R. Heupel (California, Maryland)
• Thaddaus Hill/Gordon F. Bailey (Texas)
• Ronald Hobbs (Maryland and Utah)
• Yonyuth Hongsakaphadana (New Hampshire)
• Keith Judd (Kentucky and Maryland)
• Lou Kujawski (Indiana)
• Bradford Lyttle/Abraham Bassford (United States Pacifist Party—Colorado)^[61]
• Frank McEnulty/David Mangan (Colorado)^[62]
• Frank Moore/Susan Block (California, Maryland, and Utah)
• Kevin Mottus (Indiana)
• Gary Nettles/Brad Krones (Florida)
• John Joseph Polachek (New Party—Illinois)^[63]
• John Plemons (Indiana)
• Platt Robertson/Scott Falls (Ohio)
• Joe Schriner/Dale Way (Maryland and Ohio)
• David John Sponheim (Maryland)
• Lynne A. Starr (Maryland)
• Blaine Taylor (Maryland)
• Jeffrey Wamboldt (We the People Party—Wisconsin)
• Lanakila Washington (Humanistic Party—New York)
• Ted Weill/Frank McEnulty (Reform—Mississippi)
• Jerry White/Bill Van Auken (Socialist Equality—New York)^[64]
• Cody Judy (Utah) Conservative Independent^[65] Self published sources ^[66],State of Utah Declaration of Candidacy^[67]

[edit] Guam

Although Guam has no votes in the Electoral College, it has held a straw poll for its presidential preferences since 1980. In 2008, their ballot included Barr, McCain, and Obama. On July 10, 2008, the Guam legislature passed a law moving that poll forward to gain notoriety for Guam's election.^[68] The legislation was eventually vetoed.^[69]

[edit] Primary and convention candidates

[edit] Democratic Party primary ballot access

     Candidate actively campaigning      Candidate with suspended or canceled campaign      Candidate not on ballot

Primary	Biden	Clinton	Dodd	Edwards	Gravel	Kucinich	Obama	Richardson
Iowa (January 3)	JB	HC	CD	JE	MG	DK	BO	BR
New Hampshire (January 8)	JB	HC	CD	JE	MG	DK	BO	BR
Michigan (January 15)		HC	CD		MG	DK
Nevada (January 19)	JB	HC	CD	JE		DK	BO	BR
South Carolina (January 26)	JB	HC	CD	JE	MG	DK	BO	BR
Florida[70] (January 29)	JB	HC	CD	JE	MG	DK	BO	BR

[edit] Republican Party primary ballot access

     Candidate actively campaigning      Candidate with suspended or canceled campaign      Candidate not on ballot

	Giuliani	Huckabee	Hunter	Keyes	McCain	Paul	Romney	Thompson
Iowa (January 3)	RG	MH	DH		JM	RP	MR	FT
Wyoming (January 5)	RG	MH	DH		JM	RP	MR	FT
New Hampshire[71] (January 8)	RG	MH	DH	AK	JM	RP	MR	FT
Michigan (January 15)	RG	MH	DH		JM	RP	MR	FT
Nevada (January 19)	RG	MH	DH		JM	RP	MR	FT
South Carolina (January 19)	RG	MH	DH		JM	RP	MR	FT
Florida[70] (January 29)	RG	MH	DH	AK	JM	RP	MR	FT

[edit] See also

• List of candidates in the United States presidential election, 2004
• Comparison of United States presidential candidates, 2008
• Third party (United States) presidential candidates, 2008
• United States presidential candidate girls, 2008

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Ballot Access News
• Politics1 - Ballot Access

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