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The Obama campaign also bought a channel on Dish Network to screen Obama ads 24/7. [138] Wyatt Andrews reported on a "Reality Check" on the CBS Evening News the next day with doubts over the factual accuracy of some of the promises Obama made in the advertisement, given the government's enormous financial deficit.
The video of Obama's speech A More Perfect Union also "went viral", reaching over 1.3 million views on YouTube within a day of the speech's delivery. [283] Links to the speech were among the most widely shared on Facebook , and by March 27, the speech had been viewed nearly 3.4 million times.
From January 3 to June 3, 2008, voters of the Democratic Party chose their nominee for president in the 2008 United States presidential election.Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was selected as the nominee, becoming the first African American to secure the presidential nomination of any major political party in the United States.
On Feb. 10, 2007, then Senator Barack Obama of Illinois announced he would seek the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. Ten years later, the country reflects on two successful ...
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.
President-elect Barack Obama gives his election victory speech, November 4, 2008. November 1 – Republican nominee John McCain appears on Saturday Night Live. [287] November 4 – Election Day: Barack Obama and Joe Biden win 52.93 percent of the popular vote and 365 electoral votes to John McCain and Sarah Palin's 45.65 percent and 173 ...
Supporters cheering as Obama delivers his speech in Grant Park. In his speech, Obama reflected on the hard times of the campaign and the "challenges that America would face ahead." TV coverage of the speech showed Jesse Jackson and Oprah Winfrey weeping in the crowd. [13] [14] Obama's speech also marked the first time a President-elect referred ...
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