2008 Presidential Election Results by State Margin of Victory

The orange entries are states in which the margin of victory was within 5 points.  The yellow entries are within ten points.  These are the swing states.


The states with a negative Obama margin of victory are states that went for McCain.

State	Electors	Obama (D)	McCain (R)	Nader (I)	Barr (L)	Baldwin (C)	McKinney (G)	Others	Obama % margin	Date of Primary
NE 3rd	1	73,099	169,361	1,815	804	1,349	314		-40.75	5/15/12
WY	3	82,868	164,958	2,525	1,594	1,192		1,521	-34.92	3/6-10/12
OK	7	502,496	960,165						-31.29	3/6/12
UT	5	327,670	596,030	8,416	6,966	12,012	982	294	-31.19	6/26/12
ID	4	236,440	403,012	7,175	3,658	4,747			-27.81	3/6/12
AK	3	123,594	193,841	3,783	1,589	1,660		1,730	-24.22	3/6/12
AL	9	813,479	1,266,546	6,788	4,991	4,310		3,705	-22.52	3/13/12
AR	6	422,310	638,017	12,882	4,776	4,023	3,470	1,139	-22.27	5/22/12
LA	9	782,989	1,148,275	6,997		2,581	9,187	10,732	-20.13	3/24/12
KY	8	751,985	1,048,462	15,378	5,989	4,694			-17.66	5/22/12
NE	2	333,319	452,979	5,406	2,740	2,972	1,028	2,837	-16.80	5/15/12
KS	6	514,765	699,655	10,527	6,706	4,148	35	36	-16.70	3/10/12
TN	11	1,087,437	1,479,178	11,560	8,547	8,191	2,499	2,337	-16.34	3/6/12
WV	5	303,857	397,466	7,219		2,465	2,355	89	-14.82	5/8/12
MS	6	554,662	724,597	4,011	2,529	2,551	1,034	481	-14.00	3/13/12
TX	34	3,528,633	4,479,328	5,440	56,116	5,395	831	2,781	-12.64	4/3/12
NE 1st	1	121,468	148,179	1,970	929	1,019	393		-11.32	5/15/12
ND	3	141,278	168,601	4,189	1,354	1,199			-10.76	3/6/12
SD	3	170,924	203,054	4,267	1,835	1,895			-10.51	6/5/12
SC	8	862,449	1,034,896	5,053	7,283	6,827	4,461		-10.21	1/21/12
AZ	10	1,034,707	1,230,111	11,301	12,555	1,371	3,406	24	-9.77	2/28/12
GA	15	1,844,123	2,048,759	1,158	28,731	1,402	250	63	-6.02	3/6/12
MT	3	231,667	242,763	3,686	1,355	143	23	10,638	-5.50	6/5/12
MO	11	1,441,911	1,445,814	17,813	11,386	8,201	80		-1.41	3/17/12
NC	15	2,142,651	2,128,474	1,448	25,722		158	13,942	-0.63	5/8/12
IN	11	1,374,039	1,345,648	909	29,257	1,024	87	90	-0.11	5/8/12
NE 2nd	1	138,752	135,439	1,621	1,007	604	321		-0.09	5/15/12
FL	27	4,282,074	4,045,624	28,124	17,218	7,915	2,887	6,902	2.07	1/31/12
OH	20	2,940,044	2,677,820	42,337	19,917	12,565	8,518	7,149	3.01	3/6/12
VA	13	1,959,532	1,725,005	11,483	11,067	7,474	2,344	6,355	5.26	3/6/12
CO	9	1,288,576	1,073,589	13,350	10,897	6,233	2,822	5,894	7.32	2/7/12
IA	7	828,940	682,379	8,014	4,590	4,445	1,423	7,332	7.86	1/3/12
MN	10	1,573,354	1,275,409	30,152	9,174	6,787	5,174	10,319	8.12	2/7/12
NH	4	384,826	316,534	3,503	2,217	226	40	3,624	8.25	1/10/12
ME 2nd	1	189,778	150,669	5,373			1,538	179	9.21	2/4-11/12
PA	21	3,276,363	2,655,885	42,977	19,912	1,092			9.28	4/24/12
NV	5	533,736	412,827	6,150	4,263	3,194	1,411	6,267	10.29	2/4/12
WS	10	1,677,211	1,262,393	17,605	8,858	5,072	4,216	8,062	12.44	4/3/12
OR	7	1,037,291	738,475	18,614	7,635	7,693	4,543	13,613	13.50	5/15/12
NM	5	472,422	346,832	5,327	2,428	1,597	1,552		13.81	6/5/12
NJ	15	2,215,422	1,613,207	21,298	8,441	3,956	3,636	2,277	14.54	6/5/12
MI	17	2,872,579	2,048,639	33,085	23,716	14,685	8,892	170	14.86	2/28/12
WA	11	1,750,848	1,229,216	29,489	12,728	9,432	3,819	1,346	15.31	3/3/12
ME	2	421,923	295,273	10,636	251	177	2,900	431	15.34	2/4-11/12
ME 1st	1	232,145	144,604	5,263			1,362	252	21.03	2/4-11/12
CT	7	997,772	629,428	19,162		311	90	29	21.18	4/24/12
CA	55	8,274,473	5,011,781	108,381	67,582	3,145	38,774	57,764	22.03	6/5/12
MA	12	1,904,097	1,108,854	28,841	13,189	4,971	6,550	14,483	23.60	3/6/12
IL	21	3,419,348	2,031,179	30,948	19,642	8,256	11,838	1,160	23.84	3/20/12
MD	10	1,629,467	959,862	14,713	9,842	3,760	4,747	9,205	23.84	4/3/12
DE	3	255,459	152,374	2,401	1,109	626	385	58	23.89	4/24/12
NY	31	4,804,701	2,752,728	41,248	19,595	634	12,801	8,936	25.77	4/24/12
RI	4	296,571	165,391	4,829	1,382	675	797	122	26.26	4/24/12
VT	3	219,262	98,974	3,339	1,067	500	66	1,904	34.88	3/6/12
HI	4	325,871	120,566	3,825	1,314	1,013	979		43.69	3/13/12
DC	3	245,800	17,367	958			590	1,138	84.91	4/3/12
US Total	538	70,253,457	60,696,492	754,762	526,453	202,409	165,608	227,410	5.78