2008 United States presidential election

The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Incumbent Republican president Catherine Graham defeated Republican nominee Richard MacArthur, the Senate Minority Leader, in the most lopsided presidential election in American history. Graham is the first female and first Hispanic elected president, as well as the first presidential candidate in American history to win all 538 electoral votes, and still holds those records as of 2016.

After losing the Republican primary to Richard MacArthur, Graham ran as an independent and chose Mike Hodges, the incumbent chief justice and Democratic nominee, as her running mate. Although Graham was a Republican president, it is because of this that the Graham/Hodges ticket was endorsed by the Democratic Party. As such, Graham is treated as the Democratic nominee in this election.