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Informationen zum Autor Martin Dupuis is assistant dean of the Burnett Honors College and associate professor of political science at the University of Central Florida. Keith Boeckelman is professor of political science at Western Illinois University and Research Fellow at the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs. Klappentext The roots of President Obama's politics and presidential campaign strategy are traced in this up-to-the-minute political biography. The work chronicles his career from his successful run in 1996 to represent Chicago's South Side in the Illinois Senate to his failed challenge in 2000 to the South Side's incumbent in the U.S. House to this partial term as the junior U.S. senator from Illinois beginning in 2004 and finally to his landslide election to the U.S. presidency in 2008. Dupuis and Boeckelman analyze in illuminating detail the critical ways in which the political calculus so brilliantly deployed in Obama's 2007-2008 national campaign was shaped by the lessons he learned from the successes and failures of his previous local and statewide campaigns. This paperback edition is updated and enhanced with post-election analysis, appendices, and photos. Zusammenfassung The roots of President Obama's politics and presidential campaign strategy are traced in this up-to-the-minute political biography. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Foreword Acknowledgments 1 From the South Side to Statewide 2 Will It Play in Peoria? The U.S. Senate Primary Campaign 3 "Jesus Wouldn't Vote for Obama"-Alan Keyes: The U.S. Senate General Election 4 "Money Is the Mother's Milk of Politics"-Raising Money and Spreading the Wealth 5 Overcoming a Funny Last Name: Media and the Vote in the U.S. Senate Campaign 6 Barack Obama and Post-Racial Politics in the U.S. Senate Campaign 7 Mr. Obama Goes to Washington 8 "There Is No Red or Blue America": Obama's Message 9 Lessons of Obama's Political Career, 1996-2007 10 The Road to the White House Appendix A Elective and Electoral History of Barack Obama, 1996-2009 Appendix B Illinois State Senator Obama's Keynote Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Boston, Massachusetts (July 27, 2004) Appendix C Senator Obama's Presidential Candidacy Announcement, Springfield, Illinois (February 10, 2007) Appendix D Senator Obama's Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver, Colorado (August 28, 2008) Appendix E President-Elect Obama's Victory Speech, Chicago, Illinois (November 4, 2008) Notes Selected Bibliography Index ...
