The correct answer is B) It was the first presidential election where an African American won a major party’s nomination for president.
The most significant thing in the 2008 presidential election was that It was the first presidential election where an African American won a major party’s nomination for president.
Barack Obama was the first African American that won a major party's nomination for president. He was the Democratic candidate for the presidency and won. Barack Obama represented all of the things that people demanded at that time after two terms of Republican George W. Bush. American people wanted a change and did not matter that Obama was an African American. He represented that change in that election. So under the slogan of "Yes, We Can," American people decided to give him a change and Obama became the 44th President of the United States in January 2009.