Obama's Victory

Obama's Victory

The 2008 Presidential Election was a monumental moment in United States history. For the first time an African American president was elected. Like past important events, Barack Obama’s victory will be the precident for future events, much like how Roosevelt’s New Deal was the precident for many of todays economic policies. Of course the journey to the presidency was not an easy one, his opponents fought a tough battle, but in the end Obama won the electoral collage 365 to 173. From the beginning of his candidacy for President of the United States on February 10, 2007 at the location where Lincoln once said “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” After having just two years of experience in the United States Senate Barack Obama was quickly titled inexperienced by his opponents. This inexperience would later benefit him, but while facing Hillary Clinton for Democratic party nomination this was something that hurt him. With an opponent such as Hillary Clinton, who has years of experience not only observing politics being the First Lady of the United States, but also participating with her seven years as a Senator for New York State, Barack Obama was not going to win the Democratic Primary easily. During the Primary Obama faced against Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, and Bill Richardson. Since the beginning one major thing that Barack Obama had over his opponents was that he has a very commanding presence. Unlike his opponents who appear to be reading robotically from a teleprompter, he speaks confidently and with conviction. Even though his speeches are prepared for him, he speaks as if they are his own words, looking voters straight in the eye as he draws cheers from the crowd. His campaign announced early that it would not accept donations from registered lobbyists1, and would avoid using public campaign funds, seeking instead to use money raised from individual donors. Even with doing this he manged to...

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