“It’s the contagious power of hope!” she added. Barack Obama’s political ascension in 2008 culminated in a landslide victory in which he won by roughly 9.5 million votes, including a ...

CHICAGO — Barack Obama and Kamala Harris first met 20 years ago, when she was the district attorney in San Francisco and he was running for the Senate from Illinois. In 2008, she knocked on ...

It was the same, but different. That’s how I felt Tuesday night after watching Barack and Michelle Obama address the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The last time I saw Barack Obama speak ...

Obama White House and campaign alumni have been setting the course of the Democratic Party for years. After 2024, more ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Barack Obama talks to reporters and board members at the Chicago Sun-Times in 2008. Provided photo Share You could always tell when somebody important was ...

Members of former President Barack Obama’s team are looking to make connections between the energy of his 2008 campaign and Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign. The Democratic Party ...

Outraged by the prospect of an African-American president, Florida KKK members planned to kill Barack Obama in 2008. Getty Images In September 2008, members of a Wayward, Fla., chapter of the Ku ...

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who became known as "Joe the Plumber" after garnering national media attention for confronting then-presidential candidate Barack Obama on the 2008 campaign trail ...

The friendship between the two men started in 2008: "Bruce Springsteen decided ... You know, you can definitely understand why Barack Obama is the outsider. What I do think we both shared was ...

The last time I saw Barack Obama speak in person was at another DNC. The year was 2008, the place was the Denver Broncos’ football stadium, and there were 84,000 cheering fans on hand as he ...

Raj Goyle, a friend of Harris who has known her since 2008, said about the state of the race one month after Biden’s withdrawal. Barack Obama joked that his address would likely be outshined by ...