At the 2008 Democratic National Convention on August 27, Barack Obama was formally selected as the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States in 2008. [3] He was the first African American in history to be nominated on a major party ticket. [4]

In the fall 2016 campaign, Obama campaigned ardently in multiple battleground states for Clinton and against the Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump, whom he described as “temperamentally unfit to be president.”

Barack Obama's campaign themes and strategies Obama's overarching campaign theme was the need for change. His theme of change had two facets. First, it meant a change in the White House, replacing the failed Bush presidency with a Democratic presidency. Second, it meant a change in the way that Washington worked.

American presidential election held on November 4, 2008, in which, after a campaign that lasted nearly two years, Americans elected Democrat Barack Obama their 44th president. The result was historic, as Obama, a first-term U.S. senator from …

Jan 5, 2017 · As a preview, this report outlines how Obama has performed on 25 specific pledges. As he campaigned for president in 2008 and 2012, Barack Obama amassed a record of more than 500 campaign...

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign raised nearly $750 million dollars, breaking all records for fundraising. The campaign, as importantly, established a new model for presidential fundraising, appealing to enthusiastic supporters including a network of millions of new voters for relatively small donations.

[4] On August 27, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention, the Democratic Party formally nominated Obama to run for the office of the President of the United States of America. Obama would go on to win the presidential election against Republican nominee John McCain.

Standing before 17,000 people in front of the Old State Capitol where Abraham Lincoln once served, then-Senator Obama laid out the stakes for the 2008 election, the challenges he planned to confront in office, and his vision for the campaign that followed.

Oct 10, 2024 · Sixteen years after making history, Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail Thursday for the 2024 presidential election with the hope of helping Vice President Kamala Harris do the same.

Feb 10, 2007 · Senator Barack Obama claimed the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday evening, prevailing through an epic battle with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in a primary campaign that inspired millions of voters from every corner of …