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The [[National Shooting Sports Foundation]] alleged that [[Barack Obama]]'s presidential campaign unlawfully obtained a copy of the NSSF's proprietary [[SHOT Show]] media e-mail contact list, which Obama used to send out a press release concerning "National Hunting and Fishing Day."<ref>"Obama Campaign Unlawfully Misuses Proprietary Firearms Industry Media List" October 8, 2008 http://nssf.org/news/PR_idx.cfm?AoI=generic&PRloc=share/PR/&PR=100808.cfm</ref><ref>Southcoasttoday.com "OPEN SEASON: Gun owners have a clear-cut choice" By: Folco, Mark October 19, 2008 http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081019/SPORTS/810190364</ref>
The [[National Shooting Sports Foundation]] alleged that [[Barack Obama]]'s presidential campaign unlawfully obtained a copy of the NSSF's proprietary [[SHOT Show]] media e-mail contact list, which Obama used to send out a press release concerning "National Hunting and Fishing Day."<ref>"Obama Campaign Unlawfully Misuses Proprietary Firearms Industry Media List" October 8, 2008 http://nssf.org/news/PR_idx.cfm?AoI=generic&PRloc=share/PR/&PR=100808.cfm</ref><ref>Southcoasttoday.com "OPEN SEASON: Gun owners have a clear-cut choice" By: Folco, Mark October 19, 2008 http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081019/SPORTS/810190364</ref>

===Acceptance speech===
The [[Barack Obama presidential acceptance speech, 2008]] was a major media event and the crowning achievement of his campaign team.


==Proposed joint-appearances and presidential debates==
==Proposed joint-appearances and presidential debates==

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Obama for America
CampaignU.S. presidential election, 2008
CandidateBarack Obama
U.S. Senator 2005–present
AffiliationDemocratic Party
StatusWon election, November 4, 2008
Headquarters233 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Key peopleJoe Biden (VP Nominee)
David Plouffe (Manager)
Penny Pritzker (Finance)
David Axelrod (Media)
Robert Gibbs (Communications)
Bill Burton (Spokesman)
Claire McCaskill (Co-Chair)
Tim Kaine (Co-Chair)
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Slogan
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Barack Obama, the junior United States Senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007.[1] On August 27, 2008 he became the nominee[2] of the Democratic Party for the 2008 presidential election. He is the first African American and first biracial in history to run on a major party ticket.[3] On August 23, 2008 Barack Obama's campaign confirmed earlier reports that Senator Joe Biden of Delaware would be the Vice Presidential nominee.[4]

On November 4, 2008, projections indicated that Obama won the election, making him the president-designate.[5][6] His formal election to the office occurs pending the meeting of the Electoral College on December 15, 2008, and the subsequent certification of the college's vote by the United States Congress on January 6, 2009.[7] Upon taking office, Obama would join Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy as the only sitting senators to ascend to the presidency.

Chronicle

End of the primaries

Further information: Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008

On June 3, 2008, after the Montana and South Dakota primaries, Barack Obama secured enough delegates to clinch the nomination of the Democratic party for President of the United States.[3] His opponent, Republican John McCain, passed the delegate threshold to become the presumptive nominee of his party on March 4.[8] On June 7, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's remaining opponent in the quest for the Democratic nomination, conceded defeat at a rally in Washington, D.C. and urged her supporters to back Obama.[9] After a June 26 dinner at which Obama encouraged his fundraisers to donate to Clinton's debt-addled campaign,[10] Obama and Clinton ran their first post-primary event together in Unity, New Hampshire on June 27.[11] Over the first two weeks of July, the campaign ran a heavier schedule of fundraising events, drawing from former donors to Clinton's campaign.[12]

Middle Eastern and European tour

In July 2008 Obama traveled to Kuwait, Afghanistan,[13] Iraq,[14] Jordan,[15] the West Bank,[16] Israel, Germany, France, and Great Britain. During the course of this trip he met with assorted international leaders, including President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan,[17] Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France,[18] and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, as well as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Conservative opposition leader David Cameron.[19]

On July 24, 2008 he gave a speech at the Victory Column in Berlin before a crowd of estimated 200,000 to 240,000 people.[20]

Saddleback Civil Forum

Main article: Civil Forum on the Presidency

Vice Presidential selection

Joe Biden and Barack Obama after the presentation of Biden as the vice presidential running mate in Springfield, Illinois
Main articles: Democratic Party (United States) vice presidential candidates, 2008 and Joe Biden presidential campaign, 2008 § Obama–Biden campaign 2008

Barack Obama's vice presidential running mate had been a subject of speculation since the end of the primaries. As of August 2008, some of the most popular choices for VP included, but were not limited to, New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, Colin Powell, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, and retired General Wesley Clark.

Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Jill Biden and Joe Biden at the United States Vice Presidential announcement on August 23, 2008 in Template:City-state
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On Thursday, August 21, 2008, Obama announced that he had made a selection for the VP spot, but would not reveal until Saturday, August 23 who it was.[21] Obama's campaign encouraged supporters to sign up for a text messaging system that would alert them the moment he announced his choice. On Friday, August 22, KMBC News of Kansas City spotted bumper stickers of an Obama/Bayh '08 ticket that were being printed in Lenexa, Kansas. Three sources close to a local printing plant reported that such material was being produced.[22] The image of the bumper sticker circulated on the internet. However, NBC News later quoted sources stating that Bayh had been informed by Obama's campaign that he was not the pick.[23] According to an Associated Press report that same evening, Joe Biden was selected as Obama's candidate.[24] The Associated Press report was confirmed several hours later, on August 23, on Barack Obama's official campaign website and by a mass text message to supporters.[4]

Opinion polling

Further information: Nationwide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008 and Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008
Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008.[25]
  >10% Obama lead
  4%–10% Obama lead
  1%–4% Obama lead
  Tie
  1%–4% McCain lead
  4%–10% McCain lead
  >10% McCain lead

The day after Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Obama's Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, announced his selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.[26] Almost immediately, the Obama/Biden ticket plunged in the polls: in a Gallup poll of likely voters, the McCain/Palin ticket gained a 10-point lead.[27] The erosion of support for the Obama/Biden ticket was especially pronounced among white women who had previous shown strong support for Hillary Clinton.[28] However, Obama has regained a lead in the national poll averages and kept it since September 19.[29]

A RealClearPolitics average of fourteen national polls taken between October 29 and November 2 shows an average 7.3% lead for Obama over opponent John McCain. Obama's highest support in the polling average was 8.2% on October 14. Among individual polls tracked by RealClearPolitics, Obama's highest support was recorded in a Newsweek poll conducted between June 18 and June 19 and a Pew Research poll conducted between October 23 and October 26 showing a 15% lead.[30]

Gallup has conducted weekly polls of registered voters to measure support among the candidates. The most recent poll conducted between October 27 and November 2 shows 24% of pure Independents support Obama, trailing opponent John McCain's 32% support. Obama's Independent support peaked at 33% the week of October 6-October 12.[31]

A RealClearPolitics average of four national polls measuring favorable/unfavorable opinions taken between October 28 and November 2 shows an average 55.5% favorable rating and 39.8% unfavorable rating. Obama's highest ratings in the polling average were 61.2% favorable and 32.5% unfavorable on July 8.[32]

As of November 3, 2008, one day before the election, the RealClearPolitics electoral map excluding toss up states shows 278 electoral votes for Obama/Biden, an electoral majority, and 132 electoral votes for opponents McCain/Palin.[33] Including toss up states, the Obama/Biden ticket leads with 338 votes.[34]

Political positions

Main articles: Political positions of Barack Obama and Comparison of United States presidential candidates, 2008

Obama has taken positions on many national, political, economic and social issues, either through public comments or his senatorial voting record. Since announcing his presidential campaign in February 2007, Obama has emphasized withdrawing American troops from Iraq, increasing energy independence (that includes New Energy For America plan,[35]) decreasing the influence of lobbyists, and promoting universal health care as top national priorities.

Fundraising

Obama (far right) participates in a bipartisan meeting with President Bush and Senator McCain, and House and Senate party leaders regarding the economy, September 25, 2008
See also: Fundraising for the 2008 United States presidential election

According to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, Obama's campaign raised more money in the first quarter of 2008 ($133,549,000)[36] than it had raised in all of 2007 ($103,802,537). The campaign had a relatively small total of $21.9 million in May, but went on to raise $52 million in June, after Obama had secured the nomination.[37]

On June 19, Obama became the first major-party presidential candidate to turn down public financing since the system was created in the aftermath of Watergate.[38][39] Obama was expected to raise $265 million between the time of the announcement and election day.[40] By rejecting the funds in favor of private donations, the campaign put itself in a position to outspend John McCain prior to the election. Had he signed on to the plan, the campaign would only have been able to spend $84.1 million between the party convention in August and the general election in November.[41]

Obama explained his decision to opt out of the public financing system, saying, "public financing of presidential elections as it exists today is broken, and we face opponents who've become masters at gaming this broken system."[39] Critics of the decision claimed that the decision contradicted earlier statements that he would attempt to reach agreement with McCain to obtain public financing,[42][40] and asserted that Obama's campaign was receiving as much support from unregulated 527 groups as McCain's.[43]

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.[44]

On 19 October 2008, Obama's campaign announced a record fundraising total of $150 million for September 2008. This exceeded the campaign's single-month record ($66 million) for August 2008.[45]

The campaign raised much of its cash in small donations over the internet, with about half of its intake coming in increments of less than $200.[46] Both major party campaigns screened regularly for patterns of abuse and return or reject donations in excess of legal limits, from overseas, from untraceable addresses, or with obviously fraudulent names.[47] After some criticism of the Obama campaign on conservative blogs the Republican National Committee asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate the Obama campaign's screening practices.[48]

Media campaign

File:ObamaYeswecan.jpg
Campaign Poster

Obama's campaign has been notable for extensive use of a logo consisting of a circle, with the center suggesting a sun rising over fields in the colors of the American flag. It was designed by a team at Chicago design firm Sender LLC.[49]

Television advertisements

Soon after becoming the presumptive nominee, Obama began a biographical commercial campaign emphasizing his patriotism.[50] The advertisements ran in 18 states, including traditionally Republican Alaska and North Carolina.[51] Between June 6 and July 26, Obama's campaign spent $27 million on advertisements, against a combined McCain and Republican National Committee total of $24.6 million.[52]

In a September 15, 2008 interview with Good Morning America, Obama stated, "If we're going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily." What he apparently meant was that McCain had put out more negative ads.[53]

On October 29th at 8:00 PM EST, Obama aired a 30-minute ad entitled "American Stories, American Solutions" that was simulcast on NBC, CBS, Fox, Univision, MSNBC, BET and TV One, focusing on a wide range of issues.[54] Fox asked for Game Six of the 2008 World Series to be delayed by 15 minutes in order to show the commercial, and that request was granted.[55] ABC was the only major US network not to show the ad after being indecisive during the initial approach and the Obama campaign later declined the offer. The Obama ad got 30.1m viewers across networks compared to ABC's Pushing Daisies which garnered 6.3 million viewers.[56] Prior to this, the last presidential candidate to purchase a half-hour ad was H. Ross Perot, who ran as an independent candidate in 1992.[57]

The Obama campaign also bought a channel on Dish Network to screen Obama ads 24/7.[58]

Campaign songs

Barack Obama personally asked Joss Stone in August to write and record his presidential campaign song, reportedly due to the fact that she appeals across racial boundaries.[59] Furthermore Obama's candidacy has inspired artists to create more unsolicited music and music videos than any other candidate in American political history. Examples include "Yes We Can" by will.i.am, of the band Black-Eyed Peas, Make it to the Sun[60] by Ruwanga Samath and Maxwell D, "Barack Obama" by JFC, and "Unite the Nation" by the Greek-American hip hop group Misa/Misa.[61]

Counter-smear website

Obama's birth certificate

On June 12, 2008, the Obama campaign launched a website to counter what it described as smears by his opponents.[62] The site provides responses to disparaging rumors about the candidate,[63] such as claims that he is not a natural-born citizen of the United States.[64]

"Israel for Obama" Campaign

Originally announced by American-Israelis in late May, the campaign aimed to refute the smears made against Obama concerning Israel and the Jewish community by gaining endorsements in Israel.[65] When the Illinois Senator Barack Obama took a Middle East trip from Afghanistan to Iraq, Jordan and finally to Israel, they organized a small "Israel for Obama" rally for him.[66][67][68]

Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council stated that "The Democratic operation in the Jewish community was more extensive than I've seen in 35 years,"[69] The chairman of the campaign in Israel, Yeshiyah Amariel,[70][71] and others such as the Jewish Alliance for Change and the Jewish Council for Education & Research used YouTube to releasing video endorsements from officials and normal people in Israel for Obama and his positions (such as "Israelis for Obama"[72] and "right man for the job.")[73] In the closing weeks of the election the campaign used support for Obama from Israelis to fight the smears spread online by bloggers. Its success caused the polls of Jewish support for Obama to increase so that by the time of the Nov 4th general election, according to exit polls, 77% of the American Jewish community voted for Barack Obama over the 23% that were for John McCain.[74] [75]

E-mail campaign

The National Shooting Sports Foundation alleged that Barack Obama's presidential campaign unlawfully obtained a copy of the NSSF's proprietary SHOT Show media e-mail contact list, which Obama used to send out a press release concerning "National Hunting and Fishing Day."[76][77]

Acceptance speech

The Barack Obama presidential acceptance speech, 2008 was a major media event and the crowning achievement of his campaign team.

Proposed joint-appearances and presidential debates

Main article: United States presidential election debates, 2008

On June 4, John McCain proposed a series of ten joint town hall meetings with Obama, at which the two could engage each other, beginning the next week.[78] Obama first agreed in principle to the notion,[79] but later rejected McCain's proposal, offering instead one town-hall event on the Independence Day holiday and four traditional debate-style joint appearances.[80][81]

Presidential debates

There were three presidential debates between Obama and McCain. No third party candidates or Independent candidates were offered an invitation to join in any of the debates,[82] as Obama and McCain are the only candidates on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Commission on Presidential Debates proposed and the candidates agreed that two of three 90 minute debates would be in an informal, seated, talk show format, while the third would be in a town hall format that allowed both candidates to walk around.[83]

Vice Presidential debate

There was one vice presidential debate between Senator Joseph Biden and Governor Sarah Palin. As with the presidential debates, no third party or independent candidates were offered an invitation.

See also

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