2008 United States presidential election in New Mexico 2008 United States presidential election in New Mexico The 2008 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 4, 2008. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. New Mexico was won by the Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, by a 15.13% margin of victory; Obama took 56.91% of the vote while his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain of Arizona, took 41.78%. Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered it as a safe blue state.
Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories I would do in the first debate is offer my birth certificate, so we can get that off the table." Previously on "Good Morning America", when asked about President Obama's origins, she replied, "Well, that isn't for me to state. That's for the president to state." On May 12, 2012, Mike Coffman, a congressman running for re-election in the Sixth Congressional District of Colorado, addressed a Republican fund-raising event in Elbert County. Coffman stated that he did not know where President Barack Obama was born. Coffman went on to say of Obama that "in his heart, he's not an American.