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On September 4, 2008, the Obama campaign announced they raised $10 million in the 24-hour period after Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's acceptance speech. The RNC reported raising $1 million in the same period. [92] On October 19, 2008, Obama's campaign announced a record fundraising total of $150 million for September 2008.
Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, has successfully run for president twice: Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign, a successful election campaign resulting in him being elected the 44th president of the United States; Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign, a successful re-election campaign
RepublicansforObama.org was founded in December 2006 by John Martin, a US Navy reservist. [4] The organization grew to include over 2,500 registered members from across the United States, and was featured in USA Today, The New Yorker and other media throughout the 2008 Presidential Campaign.
The Obama campaign raised $32 million in the month of January 2008 alone, from over 250,000 separate supporters. [329] [330] When it was disclosed that Hillary Clinton loaned $5 million of her own money to her campaign, Obama's supporters donated over $6.5 million in less than 24 hours. [331]
[66] Relations were also strained between the vice presidential and presidential campaigns when Biden appeared to use his position to bolster fundraising contacts for a possible run for president in 2016, and he ended up being excluded from Obama campaign strategy meetings. [57] The Obama campaign nevertheless valued Biden as a retail-level ...
During the 2008 election, the strength of the coalition gave Obama 53% of the vote. In 2012, he won reelection with 51% of the vote along similar demographic lines. [3] This made Obama the first Democratic president since FDR to win the majority of the popular vote in multiple elections.
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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 ...