US/08 Primaries

The United States presidential election of 2008, to be held on 4th November 2008, will be the 56th consecutive election for president and vice president of the United States.

The president-elect is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2009.

News networks from around the world covered the Caucuses and Primaries, here are some images and short detail about what the American and British media done

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Charles Gibson main presenter. David Wright (Obama), John Berman (Romney), Kate Snow (Clinton), Ron Claiborne (McCain)

Jon Sopel presented from New York. Matthew Price, Justin Webb, Matt Frei, and Katty Kay reported from the States

Katie Couric main presenter. Bob Schieffer and Jeff Greenfield (election analysis), Bill Whitaker (Romney), Chip Reid (Edwards), Dean Reynolds (Obama), Jim Axelrod (Clinton), Kelly Cobiella (McCain), Nancy Cordes (Huckabee)

Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper and Lou Dobbs presented CNN’s main coverage. John King crunching the results on the touch screen

Brit Hume, Bill Hemmer, and Megyn Kelly presented Fox’s main coverage

John Stapleton presented GMTV Newshour from Washington. Carla Romano and Sarah Moore reported from the States

Super Tuesday was presented by Trevor McDonald from Washington. John Irvine, James Mates and Bill Neely reported from various locations across America

Brian Williams main presenter. Tim Russert and Chuck Todd (election analysis), Andrea Mitchell (Clinton), Kelly O’Donnell (McCain), Lee Cowen (Obama), Ron Allen (Romney)

Jeremy Thompson and Dermot Murnaghan presented from across American. Michelle Clifford, Robert Nisbet reported throughout the Caucuses and Primaries. Adam Boulton, Ian Woods and Tim Marshall also reported from the States during the build up