Democratic and liberal support for John McCain in 2008
Senator John McCain, the Republican Party nominee, was endorsed or supported by some members of the Democratic Party and by some political figures holding liberal views in the 2008 United States presidential election. McCain Democrat and McCainocrat are terms applied to Democrats who supported McCain.
"Democrats for McCain" sign at a McCain campaign rally in Albuquerque
A woman wearing a sign saying, "Another Democrat for McCain/Palin"
Individual with a sign outside the 2008 DNC advertising a website called "Hillary; now for McCain"
Joseph Isadore Lieberman was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was its nominee for vice president of the United States in the 2000 U.S. presidential election. During his final term in office, he was officially listed as an independent Democrat and caucused with and chaired committees for the Democratic Party.
Official portrait, 2005
Lieberman with President Ronald Reagan in 1984
Lieberman with President George H. W. Bush in 1991
Lieberman (second from the left) and Senate colleagues with President Bill Clinton and his national security team on Air Force One to Bosnia in 1997
