{"id":34401,"date":"2021-05-06T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T14:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=34401"},"modified":"2021-05-20T23:59:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T03:59:21","slug":"barack-obama-2008-presidential-campaign-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/barack-obama-2008-presidential-campaign-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama: 2008 Presidential Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/barack-obama-2008-presidential-campaign\/\">Barack Obama&#8217;s 2008 presidential campaign<\/a> end? How did Obama secure his victory?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama was historic for many reasons. But the biggest one was that Obama won the election and became president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign and how Obama became president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Final Stretch of Obama&#8217;s 2008 Campaign<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>With the McCain campaign spiraling and the polls giving him a commanding lead, Barack Obama was the odds-on favorite to win the November 4 general election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in the closing days of the campaign, Barack received unsettling news from back home in Hawaii\u2014his maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham (whom he always knew as \u201cToot\u201d) was seriously ill and was unlikely to survive much longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Barack Obama, the 2008 presidential campaign was coming to a close. And so was part of his life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>An Emotional Farewell<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Toot had done much to shape who Barack had become. Growing up as a young woman during the Dust Bowl in Kansas, Toot had known poverty and hardship. Although she was not college educated, Barack\u2019s grandmother had always exhibited a fierce intelligence, tempered by her Midwestern practicality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toot believed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/value-of-hard-work\/\">value of hard work<\/a> and strived to instill that in her grandson. Like him, she had been a trailblazer of sorts, becoming the first female vice president of the Bank of Hawaii. She also embodied what Barack saw as the best of America. She was a white woman born in 1922, who had overcome the severe racial prejudices of the time and place in which she\u2019d been born to embrace her biracial grandson\u2014and his Black family\u2014with unconditional love. <strong>In Toot\u2019s story, Barack saw a microcosm of what he believed to be the fundamental goodness and decency of Americans.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He visited her to say goodbye in Honolulu on October 23, 2008, a mere 12 days before the November 4 election. As he left her for what would be the last time, he wistfully thought of Toot as the last surviving link to his childhood in Hawaii. Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham passed away on November 2, 2008 at the age of 86, two days before her grandson became the first African-American president of the United States. It was a symbolic closing of one chapter of Barack\u2019s life\u2014and the opening of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>History Made<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>November 4, 2008, two days after Toot\u2019s death, was election day. After the mad rush of the last two years of campaigning, Barack enjoyed a relatively light schedule. He voted at his polling place in Chicago and waited for the results to come in with a few close friends, family, and campaign staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day was poignant and emotional for everyone, but perhaps for no one more so than his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson. Marian had grown up in Chicago during the 1940s and 1950s, when the city\u2019s neighborhoods were heavily segregated and African-Americans were effectively excluded from much of the city\u2019s cultural, political, and economic life. Barack wondered what she must be thinking as the once-unimaginable idea of a Black president slowly became a reality before her eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Around 11 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 4, 2008, the networks called the race for Barack Obama. <\/strong>He won a landslide seven-point victory in the popular vote and a 365-173 margin in the Electoral College. The campaign had scored Democratic victories in Republican strongholds like Indiana, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, and Colorado and brought Democrats large majorities in both the House and Senate. For Barack Obama, the 2008 presidential campaign was a success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Obama had done the once-unthinkable. The biracial, former underachiever from Honolulu with a funny name had been elected the nation\u2019s first Black president. <\/strong>As he accepted McCain\u2019s gracious concession speech and delivered his victory speech to a raucous crowd of more than 200,000 in Chicago\u2019s Hyde Park, it was impossible not to feel the weight of history on his shoulders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did Barack Obama&#8217;s 2008 presidential campaign end? How did Obama secure his victory? The 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama was historic for many reasons. But the biggest one was that Obama won the election and became president. 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