One of my favorite John McCain quote is “ after I lost the 2008 election, I slept like a baby. I slept for 2 hours and woke and cried for 20 minutes, then I would sleep for 2 more hours and then wake up and cry for. 20 minutes again”.
@@Gabethetitan Do you know why he was born in Panama? Also, explain to me why before Obama ran for president, his book publishers listed Obama as "Kenyan Born"?
Yeah, the media always does that. They base it on exit polls and statistics. But ultimately it's the states that get the final say of who won weeks later after the vote counts are completed.
Omg so you're 21 year's old now holy crap...I was 27 years old in 2008. I remember like if it was yesterday, I stayed up with my late mom and dad and I was jumping up and down because I never thought that would see a black President....it was big and historic. I still have my Obama shirt, I haven't wore it since 2009, it's still in my closet put away. Extraordinary time for our country. I remember thousands of people waiting for Obama and his wife and kids walking out on stage after his win and he had one of his greatest speeches...I remember seeing Oprah crying in the Crowd. It was an extraordinary moment in time.
@@ef5supercell I was 13 and we all stayed up late. I remember I was in my room with the lights off only showing my small tv and I was just in awe of history being made. Even my republican parents recognized the moment that was..
True, i always believe the last sense of integrity in the republican party died when mccain passed away, he was never afraid to call out people, whether they were democrat or republican. RIP John McCain.
@@joeycurry8700 bro he brought unemployment down, I know you guys hate to admit it but the affordable care act is a good thing and continues to help people, consumer protection act, marriage equality, improved the economy, I could keep going but those are major ones. I know you guys have this strange revisionist history that Trump somehow fixed the economy in under a year in 2016 but he didn't he inherited a good economy from Obama. Which didn't start going down until covid and did not start improving until Biden came in. These are all facts and you can look them up and Id be happy to provide you sources for anything also. Things were "better under trump" soleley because of the prior administration (democrats). I get you guys just want to hate anyone not republican but you need to realize thats why you guys fail at winning over the people when you need to. Thats usually why you guys lose control of the house and senate 2 years into whatever term you guys take the presidency. You don't want to work together you want to live in echo chambers that just tell you what you want to hear.
The 2006-2008 period was golden for the Democrats, they had many governorships, had a majority in the House of Representatives, they had 49 senators in 2006 and then a SUPER majority in 2008 and obtained the presidency.
@@georgebeasley9979 yeah but then Frankens win was being challenged so he didn't even get sworn in until a few months later and then on top of that robert Byrd was hospitalized which left that seat vacant
Watching Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania getting called the moments the polls closed. Rewatching this now 16 years later, I can't believe how it used to be.
Presidential calls timestamped highlights 0:20 Kentucky - John McCain 0:30 Vermont - Obama 2:03 New House 2:22 Democratic Pickup - VA Senate Mark Warner 2:36 Lindsay Graham reelected 5:22 Jay Rockefeller reelected 6:34 Joe Manchin - WV reelected 6:47 Mitch Daniels - IN reelected 11:29 Jeanne Shaheen - NH Dem Pickup 11:45 Susan Collins reelected 11:50 Joe Biden - DE reelected 11:57 Richard Durbin - IL reelected 22:41 Obama wins Ohio 27:01 Carl Levin - MI reelected 34:47 Barack Obama elected President, wins CA, OR, WA, and HI Things I noticed not shown Colorado Senate Mark Udall, TX Senate John Cornyn, GA announcing Senate race is going to a runoff,
This was thrilling to watch, even 16 years later! I was 18 at the time when Obama was elected, and I voted for him, but I wasn't very politically engaged, so I didn't pay much attention on election night. Now I regret that I didn't pay closer attention to this historic moment. I'm a total political junkie now, and I have to say, I can't even begin to imagine a Democrat (or a Republican, for that matter) winning by such huge margins in the electoral college, Senate, and House in today's deeply polarized environment.
2:22 me as a virginian: "that's him! that's our guy!" srsly the fact that media outlets called the race on exit poll results alone, shows just how OP of a candidate Warner is in VA
Baby Sonic GT I still can't believe Biden pulled it off. If you have told me in 2007 that Biden would be become Vice President and years later become President I would have been rolling on the floor laughing. But in 2020 he was the perfect candidate to take on BunkerBoy
I wasn’t old enough to understand this election when it was going on. But knowing what I know at the time I can’t imagine anyone thought McCain was gonna win right?
Not really. I was 23 (and living in Sweden at the time on a student exchange)so I had a very firm grasp on the events. Mccain made some stupid comment about "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" and it crashed like weeks afterwards. People knew that Bush had left a complete mess and really wanted change. Two wars, Guantanamo bay, Katrina,in addition to millions losing their jobs left people wanting something different. People were so tired of Bush.
Yes, we need to do it again, but it won’t be civil. Sadly, we don’t have a respectable candidate to go against. If Haley was the Republican nominee we at least know she’d take the L respectably like McCain did. Dump won’t.
My first time eligible to vote was for Obama. Will never forget watching it live and then the news it was a surreal moment as i realized i was living through something truly historic.
Hi I originally made this video but they got taken down so they are on this channel. But if I recall, Arizona was called during McCains concession speech with no on air projection, so it wasn't included.
its official, i even remember north carolina took either 3 days or 3 weeks to count all the ballots in North Carolina. Obama won NC by 0.3 and was the first democrat to win NC since Jimmy Carter in 1976
Georgia is now a battleground state. I remember Bill Clinton winning it in 1992, but that's only because Perot split the vote. I wonder if Georgia can go Dem again next November. We shall see.
It was a different time, Atlanta grew demographically with a diverse and educated population, they settled in the suburbs of Atlanta which in the 2000s voted Republican. The county of Gwinett in the suburbs of Atlanta shows this evolution in 2008 Obama made 44%, same score in 2012, Hillary Clinton obtained 50.20% of the votes in 2016... In 2020 Biden obtained 58.40%, Georges Bush in 2004 Republican candidate it was 65.66% in this county.
37:40 "It makes you shudder what would've happened if the rest of the country (election results) had been that tight; we could've been here for 3 weeks." Talk about some foreshadowing! 2020 took nearly a full week for North Carolina and Alaska to finish counting, and I can't imagine 2024 will be any easier
Major dem senate holds Arkansas Louisiana South dakota --------------------- Major senate pickups Virginia North carolina New hampshire Alaska Oregon Minnesota Colorado ---------------- Obama pickups Virginia and indiana North carolina Florida Almost georgia Omaha Ohio New hampshire Almost missouri and montana Nevada and colorado New mexico Iowa
Its funny watching the contrast between their breathless excitement in 2008, and their terror watching the man who would erase Obama's legacy 8 years later in 2016 😂
@@Gabethetitan lmao democrats have completely destroyed our economy , no one will vote for them again. You will see states like Minnesota and New Mexico go red in 2024
One of my favorite John McCain quote is “ after I lost the 2008 election, I slept like a baby. I slept for 2 hours and woke and cried for 20 minutes, then I would sleep for 2 more hours and then wake up and cry for. 20 minutes again”.
Too bad he lost to a non-American
No, a non american native lost to a hawaiian
Mccain was born in panama @@angrychickenyt
@@angrychickenytcope
@@Gabethetitan Do you know why he was born in Panama?
Also, explain to me why before Obama ran for president, his book publishers listed Obama as "Kenyan Born"?
@@nickiiminajj9148 I know you are
Why does it look like television had just been invented in 2008?
Seeing every anchor get cut off and half the states called at 0% of the vote reporting is fantastic
Helluva moment for obama
Yeah, the media always does that. They base it on exit polls and statistics. But ultimately it's the states that get the final say of who won weeks later after the vote counts are completed.
It’s so wrong
@@Secret19977 Shouldve studied math more and you wouldn't be confused
I was five years old and I remember my mom letting me stay up late to watch the results on a school night.
Omg so you're 21 year's old now holy crap...I was 27 years old in 2008. I remember like if it was yesterday, I stayed up with my late mom and dad and I was jumping up and down because I never thought that would see a black President....it was big and historic. I still have my Obama shirt, I haven't wore it since 2009, it's still in my closet put away. Extraordinary time for our country.
I remember thousands of people waiting for Obama and his wife and kids walking out on stage after his win and he had one of his greatest speeches...I remember seeing Oprah crying in the Crowd. It was an extraordinary moment in time.
same, i was 5 years old in 2008. my family was crying tears of joy when obama won.
I wasn’t even alive 😢
@@Aerith_ holy crap I didn’t even know that people born after 2008 have developed consciousness yet
@@ef5supercell I was 13 and we all stayed up late. I remember I was in my room with the lights off only showing my small tv and I was just in awe of history being made. Even my republican parents recognized the moment that was..
Although I disagreed with his politics, McCain was a true patriot and a model of what respectable conservatism can and should be.
True, i always believe the last sense of integrity in the republican party died when mccain passed away, he was never afraid to call out people, whether they were democrat or republican. RIP John McCain.
Obama sucked bro like name one good thing he did 😭🙏 And don’t say affordable care act
Shut up.
Songbird?
@@joeycurry8700 bro he brought unemployment down, I know you guys hate to admit it but the affordable care act is a good thing and continues to help people, consumer protection act, marriage equality, improved the economy, I could keep going but those are major ones. I know you guys have this strange revisionist history that Trump somehow fixed the economy in under a year in 2016 but he didn't he inherited a good economy from Obama. Which didn't start going down until covid and did not start improving until Biden came in. These are all facts and you can look them up and Id be happy to provide you sources for anything also. Things were "better under trump" soleley because of the prior administration (democrats). I get you guys just want to hate anyone not republican but you need to realize thats why you guys fail at winning over the people when you need to. Thats usually why you guys lose control of the house and senate 2 years into whatever term you guys take the presidency. You don't want to work together you want to live in echo chambers that just tell you what you want to hear.
The 2006-2008 period was golden for the Democrats, they had many governorships, had a majority in the House of Representatives, they had 49 senators in 2006 and then a SUPER majority in 2008 and obtained the presidency.
They also had control over the majority of state legislatures especially in the south
They never had a super majority they were close but they never actually had 60 senators in their caucus
@@opticbigevil7828 yes they did when arlen spectar the republican senator from Pennsylvania switched party's from Republican to Democrat
@@georgebeasley9979 yeah but then Frankens win was being challenged so he didn't even get sworn in until a few months later and then on top of that robert Byrd was hospitalized which left that seat vacant
@@opticbigevil7828 ok but like when Robert Byrd was hospitalized I thought Joe machin who was governor during the time had somebody to feel in for him
politics aside it's really cool to see how people were still ripping with VHS even in '08 lmao
Wow TV graphic design changed a ton in 2010. The 2012 graphics look more similar to today’s than 2012 did to 2008 😂
Weird because I remember 2008 well lol. Doesn’t feel that distant yet.
2009 was the switch to HD
Watching Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania getting called the moments the polls closed. Rewatching this now 16 years later, I can't believe how it used to be.
Obama was too strong that's why.
Be patient Georgia, you'll shake up the senate and the presidency someday.
which they did
Today's midterms 👀👀
THE FLIP
Lmao they did
Obama was the first Democrat to win two terms as President without carrying Georgia either time.
Presidential calls timestamped highlights
0:20 Kentucky - John McCain
0:30 Vermont - Obama
2:03 New House
2:22 Democratic Pickup - VA Senate Mark Warner
2:36 Lindsay Graham reelected
5:22 Jay Rockefeller reelected
6:34 Joe Manchin - WV reelected
6:47 Mitch Daniels - IN reelected
11:29 Jeanne Shaheen - NH Dem Pickup
11:45 Susan Collins reelected
11:50 Joe Biden - DE reelected
11:57 Richard Durbin - IL reelected
22:41 Obama wins Ohio
27:01 Carl Levin - MI reelected
34:47 Barack Obama elected President, wins CA, OR, WA, and HI
Things I noticed not shown
Colorado Senate Mark Udall, TX Senate John Cornyn, GA announcing Senate race is going to a runoff,
U missed kay hagan
Shit! This wasn't all that long ago, & seeing this 16 years later makes me feel old.
This was thrilling to watch, even 16 years later! I was 18 at the time when Obama was elected, and I voted for him, but I wasn't very politically engaged, so I didn't pay much attention on election night. Now I regret that I didn't pay closer attention to this historic moment. I'm a total political junkie now, and I have to say, I can't even begin to imagine a Democrat (or a Republican, for that matter) winning by such huge margins in the electoral college, Senate, and House in today's deeply polarized environment.
you actually hear the cracking in Keith Olbermann's voice announcing Obama's win of the presidency was rather moving.
34:44 Historic Moment In American History!!!!!!
Who here because debate is tonight?
Gotta get hyped up!
2:22 me as a virginian: "that's him! that's our guy!"
srsly the fact that media outlets called the race on exit poll results alone, shows just how OP of a candidate Warner is in VA
Warner has waited to be a senator since like 1992
He not only won, he won by 2 thirds in virginia
fellow virginian here, can confirm we are warner supporters
@Qiwlz he won about all counties in 08 and he won by 13 in 2020. He should be able to win by up to 19-25
He got endorsed by his predecessor John Warner a Republican + a blue wave so it helps
11:50 Hey look it’s the current President
Unfortunately
Baby Sonic GT
I still can't believe Biden pulled it off. If you have told me in 2007 that Biden would be become Vice President and years later become President I would have been rolling on the floor laughing. But in 2020 he was the perfect candidate to take on BunkerBoy
@@B75MMP Better than twice impeached Florida retiree Donald Trump
@@rogue4101 Trump is better than braindead sleepy stammer Joe Biden who killed 13 people in Afghanistan.
There's no point in trying to educate you.
Feels like this was recorded in the 80s.
I wasn’t old enough to understand this election when it was going on. But knowing what I know at the time I can’t imagine anyone thought McCain was gonna win right?
It was pretty much over by election day, yeah.
I was 26 when this election occurred.
Not really. I was 23 (and living in Sweden at the time on a student exchange)so I had a very firm grasp on the events. Mccain made some stupid comment about "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" and it crashed like weeks afterwards. People knew that Bush had left a complete mess and really wanted change. Two wars, Guantanamo bay, Katrina,in addition to millions losing their jobs left people wanting something different. People were so tired of Bush.
Samee.. I was about 7 at the time of this election
@@holtridge7337 Nice! I was about 7 years old
I can’t believe Connecticut voted for a former Goldman Sachs employee AFTER the 2008 Recession had already started.
Let's do this again guys. Harris for President! 2024!
Yes, we need to do it again, but it won’t be civil. Sadly, we don’t have a respectable candidate to go against. If Haley was the Republican nominee we at least know she’d take the L respectably like McCain did. Dump won’t.
oh, the candidate democrats installed despite her not receiving a single vote in the primaries?
talk about a threat to democracy...
Your a asshole mike jones
Obama winning Indiana is pretty impressive👍
You are damn right it was!
@@macrent2how he won that state I’ll never know.
@@Logan_ZimmermanBush administration is why, they were that bad.
@@Logan_Zimmerman people hated bush
FL, NC, IN, GA Obama did an impeccable job carrying those states
My first time eligible to vote was for Obama. Will never forget watching it live and then the news it was a surreal moment as i realized i was living through something truly historic.
You missed arizona
Hi I originally made this video but they got taken down so they are on this channel. But if I recall, Arizona was called during McCains concession speech with no on air projection, so it wasn't included.
Is anyone not gonna talk about stevens losing after 7 terms
He probably would’ve won had he didn’t have those scandal. The D+20 environment probably played a role as well
@@stevenplayzzz172 lets see if alaska is gonna be a purplr senate seat in 2026.
@@Gabethetitan Sullivan should be able to win since he doesn’t have any scandal. If biden doesn’t win re election Peltola can win
@@stevenplayzzz172 i think biden can pull off a statewide upset
@@Gabethetitan probably not this cycle maybe a few more cycle, but Peltola wins
can i request you do 2022 midterm election state calls
11:56 Hes a...WE...Job 😂 his stutter got me
17:16 that did not age well
Ikr
Abrams is why georgia went blue
@@Gabethetitan too bad Abrams can’t win GA herself
@@Gabethetitandefinitely not
Wasn't Missouri the last state to be called on November 17?
its official, i even remember north carolina took either 3 days or 3 weeks to count all the ballots in North Carolina. Obama won NC by 0.3 and was the first democrat to win NC since Jimmy Carter in 1976
No it was North Carolina
@back1879 even the news headline said obama won by 0.6 but it ended up being like by 0.3
god 2008 lookin like 1990
Are you going to do the 2022 election results
And this night MAGA was born. You begin to hear words like. We are going to take our country back! Obama was an American President
Yes, has was indeed an American president
Obama destroyed this country 😢 Obama destroyed education 🙄
He was indeed an American president.
He was definitely one of the presidents of all time
yes, the racist reactionaries started with his election and led to candidates like tRump.
How did Obama not win in Georgia either time? I don't understand that one.
Not enough black turnout. But his vice president won georgia
He shouldve won georgia but biden won it for him
Different times. And the Atlanta area at the time hasn’t outgrown the red areas yet. And it amazes me how Georgia was called before Mississippi was.
Georgia is now a battleground state. I remember Bill Clinton winning it in 1992, but that's only because Perot split the vote. I wonder if Georgia can go Dem again next November. We shall see.
It was a different time, Atlanta grew demographically with a diverse and educated population, they settled in the suburbs of Atlanta which in the 2000s voted Republican. The county of Gwinett in the suburbs of Atlanta shows this evolution in 2008 Obama made 44%, same score in 2012, Hillary Clinton obtained 50.20% of the votes in 2016... In 2020 Biden obtained 58.40%, Georges Bush in 2004 Republican candidate it was 65.66% in this county.
I get a laugh every time I see Fox News lose it when ohio is called for Obama
and now Ohio is a Trump state...
My Uncle liked Tom Brokaw (been a NBC Fan as long as he was alive). NBC is #1.
Sad day for America.
How did Susan Collins not go down it a blue wave year 3x the size of 2018
She was moderately.
If we blue wave in 2026, she will either win by 6 or lose by under a point no in between
@@Gabethetitan she still is
@stevenplayzzz172 we wont get collins seat until she retired
@@Gabethetitan not exactly she got lucky with vote split
North carolina goes to Barack Obama! Montana goes to McCain! Omaha officially goes to Obama!
And if obama said nothing bout palin folks, alaska would be won by obama by 0.99%
Man, talk about crowd size😂😂😂
"we could've been here for 3 weeks" 37:33
2020: hmmm that sounds like a good idea!
2000: Amateurs!
1876: Am I joke to you?
1800: Who are you backing, Mr Alexander Hamilton?
1824: Needs to be decided in the House
You would have to wait a month for an election in the 1790s to 1830s
I was 6 and remember how happy I was to this day
tbf you'd have to have the brain of a six year old to have gotten excited about an obama presidency
@@xx_sanic_da_heg_hoge_xx420 hes a lot better than any republican as of late lol.
@@realmackleyour comment's gonna age like milk
I miss these days
11:39 Why does Collins look like an Asian?
It's likely the quality of the recording
shes irish
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thinks so.
i was planning to just watch the first 5 minutes but i ended watvhing most of it
And then 2010 happened…
14:47 Weird foreshadowing, look at Indiana. Yes I know it's a result of horrible video quality.
that's so weird!!! it's definitely a light blue haha
37:40 "It makes you shudder what would've happened if the rest of the country (election results) had been that tight; we could've been here for 3 weeks."
Talk about some foreshadowing! 2020 took nearly a full week for North Carolina and Alaska to finish counting, and I can't imagine 2024 will be any easier
Back when America was great....
Um, I don't remember 2008 looking like it's 1972 🤔....
What do you even mean? It didn't look like this when it was live, obviously.
@@Square-ow7oq Duh, and what's with the "What do you mean?" it's called sarcasm. The quality of the video isn't 1080
@zoren1900 girl, that's not sarcasm at all. You tried to make a joke, and it was kinda stupid.
@@Square-ow7oq keep talking about yourself 🤡 💅 the joke is you. You took what I wrote serious . LMFAOOOO
Do you have this with host commentary?
Gods I forgot how close it felt for Obama in 2008
Mitch Daniels look like McConnell
Major dem senate holds
Arkansas
Louisiana
South dakota
---------------------
Major senate pickups
Virginia
North carolina
New hampshire
Alaska
Oregon
Minnesota
Colorado
----------------
Obama pickups
Virginia and indiana
North carolina
Florida
Almost georgia
Omaha
Ohio
New hampshire
Almost missouri and montana
Nevada and colorado
New mexico
Iowa
24:48 what a landslide. McStain was demolished😂
Deep south, says a lot
Ikr
At least GEORGIA PUT SOME EFFOET
Now georgia went for obamas vp
Its funny watching the contrast between their breathless excitement in 2008, and their terror watching the man who would erase Obama's legacy 8 years later in 2016 😂
Harris 2024
i remember being so brainwashed thinking obama would destroy our country. Now I wish he could run again.
he did destroy the country
Who did you vote for Joe Biden or Donald Trump
Biden ez
Trump ez
Couldn’t also Biden though
would've voted trump on election day had i been able to, but as of now definitely Biden
Biden 2024
The fall of America.
best election
Had the romney coalition didnt happen in 2014 and we did 5 pts better, biden has NC and possibly AK is likely R (6-10)
42:58 - wrong. Jon Ossoff won
true
22:41 Heart, Dagger
Ohio will never go blue again
@@danielplayz4421 it will in 2024
@@Gabethetitan no it won't, its a red state
@@danielplayz4421 lets just wait and see
@@Gabethetitan lmao democrats have completely destroyed our economy , no one will vote for them again. You will see states like Minnesota and New Mexico go red in 2024
11:51 …
I’m hoping Harris gets this lucky.
39:15 😂❤
The beginning of the downward spiral for USA
You mean when America was saved after Republicans messed up everything.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 Bot
@Klaxir Says person who likes their own comment
The night we lost America.
Then Trump came in 2016 and tried to bring it back
…was on January 20th, 2017.
@@siohunndai yeah y’all lost American on that night but shouldn’t have been here anyhow.
@@bbodinefan11 Who is y’all?
@@siohunndai people who would think like that.
22:42 OHIO. IS-GONE. FOR OBAMA.