Concept information
Preferred term
election of 2008
Definition
- On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama, a freshman Democratic senator from Illinois, was elected president. The son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya became the first African American to win the nation's presidency. [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History; Election of 2008]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/election_of_2008
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