Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign of the U.S. Congress, chaired by Vice President Cheney as President of the Senate and Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, announced and certified the votes of the Electoral College for the 2008 presidential election. From the electoral votes of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, Vice President Cheney declared 365 electoral votes for both Barack Obama of the state of Illinois and Joseph Biden of the state of Delaware and 173 electoral votes for both John McCain of the state of Arizona and Sarah Palin of the state of Alaska. Based on the results of the
Barack Obama on social media television mediums respectively in the history of communication between the White House and the American Public. Barack Obama's Twitter account (@BarackObama) is the official account on social networking site Twitter for former President of the United States Barack Obama, and has been used for his election efforts. Obama also used the White House's Twitter account (@WhiteHouse) for his presidential activities. , Obama's account had 103,083,062 followers, followed 617,962 accounts, and had posted 15,548 tweets. Well into 2011, it was following the most people of any account on the network and was the third to achieve ten million followers. It is