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Obama won all of the 2004 swing states (states that either Kerry or Bush won by less than 5%) by a margin of 8.5 percent or more except for Ohio, which he carried by 4.5 percent. Obama also defied political bellwethers, becoming the first person to win the presidency while losing Missouri since 1956 and while losing Kentucky and Tennessee since ...
Barack Obama embraces Michelle Obama after she had introduced him at a 2012 election campaign event in Davenport, Iowa. The campaign tweeted a similar photograph from the campaign photographer on election night, and many people thought it was taken on election day.
Obama has been impersonated on the sketch show Saturday Night Live more than 60 times between 2008 and 2016, where he was parodied by first Fred Armisen and later Jay Pharoah. [156] [157] [158] He did a cameo appearance on the show in 2007, when he was running for president. [159] Obama became a popular subject for artists during his ...
The day after the election, current President Barack Obama spoke to the nation about president-elect ... during Obama's speech. RELATED: Photos of President Obama meeting with Donald Trump. Show ...
As the nation pivots to the 2016 general election, here's a look at President Obama's first 100 days holding the highest office in the land. 44 iconic pictures of Obama's first 100 days in office ...
In January 2009, after Obama had won the election, Fairey's mixed-media stenciled portrait version of the image was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution for its National Portrait Gallery. Later that month, the photograph that Fairey based the poster on was identified and the AP began negotiations for compensation.
Maps and electoral vote counts for the 2012 presidential election. Our latest estimate has Obama at 277 electoral votes and Romney at 191.
Clinton won by only 1 point in Indiana. With Obama now leading by 164 pledged delegates and with only 217 pledged delegates left to be decided in the remaining contests, many pundits declared that the primary was effectively over. Obama gave an election night speech that looked forward to the general election campaign against McCain. [113]