Kansas was won by Republican nominee John McCain by a 14.9% margin of victory.

Obama still performed significantly better than Kerry, and his 41.55% of the vote remains the highest for a Democrat in the 21st century, although his running mate Joe Biden nearly matched that percentage 12 years later, with a slight reduction in margin of defeat.

As of 2024, this is the last time that Crawford County voted for the Democratic candidate in a presidential election.

[17] Kansas has always been a Republican stronghold at the presidential level, voting for GOP nominees in all but seven elections since statehood.

The last Democratic presidential nominee to carry Kansas was Lyndon B. Johnson in his landslide in 1964.

The other Democrats to have cracked the 40 percent barrier in the state since Johnson's 1964 landslide are Jimmy Carter in 1976, Michael Dukakis in 1988, and Joe Biden in 2020.

To highlight its status as a reliably red state, former State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins, a Republican, ousted incumbent Democratic U.S. Representative Nancy Boyda to win back Kansas's 2nd Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Senator Pat Roberts was reelected with 60.06% of the vote over former Democratic U.S. Representative Jim Slattery.

Obama became the first Democrat to win the White House without carrying Atchison County since John F. Kennedy in 1960.