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Presidential campaigns. v. t. e. Barack Obama, then junior United States senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for president of the United States on February 10, 2007, in Springfield, Illinois. [ 1] After winning a majority of delegates in the Democratic primaries of 2008, on August 23, leading up to the convention, the campaign ...
List of persons holding prominent positions within the Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008.. According to an August 2008 statement by Deputy Campaign Manager Steve Hildebrand, the Obama campaign had "large-scale operations in 22 states, medium operations in many others, and small staffs in only a handful of states," [1] with several thousand paid operatives on the ground between ...
Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign. Forward. On April 4, 2011, Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, announced his candidacy for re-election as president. [ 3][ 4] On September 5, 2012, he again became the nominee of the Democratic Party for the 2012 presidential election. Along with his running mate, Vice President Joe ...
This is the electoral history of Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president of the United States (2009–2017) and as a United States senator from Illinois (2005–2008). A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was first elected to the Illinois Senate in 1997 representing the 13th district, which covered much of the Chicago South Side.
When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, his campaign slogan was "Change we can believe in." He ran on the platform that called for the country to come together and create the positive change ...
Barack Obama 2008 presidential primary campaign. On February 10, 2007, Barack Obama, then-junior United States senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in Springfield, Illinois. Obama announced his candidacy at the Old State Capitol building, where Abraham Lincoln had delivered his "House Divided ...
Following his victory in the 2008 United States presidential election, then- President-elect Barack Obama gave his victory speech [ 1] at Grant Park in his home city of Chicago, [ 2] on November 4, 2008, before an estimated crowd of 240,000. [ 3][ 4] Viewed on television and the Internet by millions of people around the globe, Obama's speech ...
Barack Obama 's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, took office following his victory over Republican nominee John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Four years later, in the 2012 presidential election, he ...