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Negativity

The 2008 election, despite its high turnout and unusual enthusiasm, also featured attack ads from both campaigns which were deemed to be unusually provocative. McCain, for example, had released an ad that erroneously claimed that Obama had supported sex education for Kindergarteners.

https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/15/west.negative/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/14/campaign.wrap/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec3aC8ZJZTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLQhRiEXZs 64.63.171.178 (talk) 19:00, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. It does not appear there is consensus for this addition. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:23, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

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Bring back colors to mark candidates who won states in the close states section. Editor57839 (talk) 22:21, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

 Not done for now: This is actually a controversial edit, so you'll need to discuss first with other editors. Please open a new section here and start a discussion. As per article's history, the colors were removed due to violation of MOS:ACCESS. Paper9oll (🔔📝) 13:35, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Colors

The colors in the close state sections were removed as detailed above. It seems that the other election pages have the color for the states, so should it be added back, or should they be removed from other pages? Either way, I believe the pages should be consistent.2601:241:300:B610:DF0:BFA8:41AE:6CFE (talk) 23:45, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

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In the "International reactions" subsection under the "Results" section, please remove the link to International reactions to the 2008 United States presidential election, as the article has been deleted. 2601:241:300:B610:F5EF:BF57:495A:25EB (talk) 16:04, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

 Done – Muboshgu (talk) 16:17, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

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