Bill Richardson 2008 presidential campaign Bill Richardson 2008 presidential campaign The 2008 presidential campaign of Bill Richardson, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced his candidacy on January 21, 2007, for President of the United States on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, by virtue of forming a presidential exploratory committee. Richardson, who is of Hispanic descent, joined a diverse field for the Democratic nomination, which already included an African American in Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and a female in Senator Hillary Clinton of New York and became the first individual of Hispanic descent to mount a nationwide campaign for president. He withdrew from the
Graphical representations of two-way-contest opinion polling data from the 2008 United States presidential election Graphical representations of two-way-contest opinion polling data from the 2008 United States presidential election This article provides line graphs and bar charts of scientific, nationwide public opinion polls that have been conducted relating to the United States presidential election, 2008. All graph data is taken from Nationwide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008 and Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008. This page was last updated on November 8, 2008. This shows the results of all polls from December 8, 2006 through November 4, 2008. The horizontal lines represent actual voting results on November