The United States presidential election of 2008, will take place on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. It will be the 56th consecutive quadrennial United States presidential election. After the election, US will have new President and Vice President. According to “The Washington Post” Hillary Clinton, John Mccain and Barack Obama are the front runners for the seat of president of United States. All these three candidates are United States Senators, Republican candidate John McCain (Arizona) and Democratic candidates Barack Obama (Illinois) and Hillary Clinton (New York). Therefore, after John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election, this time also sitting Senator will be elected President of the United States. Let’s discuss more about these three US leaders.

John McCain — He was a naval aviator during the US-Vietnam War in 1967. During 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam, he was badly injured and captured as a prisoner of war by the Vietnamese Army. He spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. After getting retirement from the Navy in 1981, he started his political career. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona’s 1st congressional district in 1982. Then after serving two terms, he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986. In 2000, he lost the Republican nomination in the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush.

Barack Obama — Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He worked as a community organizer, university lecturer, and lawyer. After this, he was in Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. In 2004 he became the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate and was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 with more than 70% of the vote. In his election campaign, he has talked about ending the war in Iraq, increasing energy independence, and providing universal health care to all Americans.

Hillary Clinton — She is at present United States Senator from New York, and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. She is wife of Bill Clinton the former President of the United States so she was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She became the first American female senator of New York when she was elected as senator for this state in 2000. She partially opposed the US administration on the Iraq issue. She was re-elected as senator of New York in 2006. .