Question

Which statement about the Presidential Election of 2008 is CORRECT? A) It was the last time a Republican nominee won an election. B) It resulted in the election of the first African-American President. 9 D)vote. It was the first time a woman had been nominated for Vice President. It was won by a candidate who did not receive a majority of the popular

Answer 1

B

In 2008, Barack Obama was elected president, the first African American to ever do so.

Answer 2

It resulted in the election of the first African-American President and it was the first time a woman had been nominated for Vice President.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Presidential Election of 2008 was historically significant for many reasons, two of them was that it was the first time in which an African American man won the presidency: the Democrat nominee Barack Obama, who was serving as U.S. senator from Illinois at the moment. And it was also the first time in which a woman had been nominated as a vice presidential nominee: the Republican Sarah Louise Palin, who was serving as the 9th governor of Alaska.