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The 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama, then junior United States Senator from Illinois, was announced at an event on February 10, 2007 in Springfield, Illinois.〔"(Obama Launches Presidential Bid )," BBC News, February 10, 2007. Retrieved on January 14, 2008. (Video ) at Brightcove.TV.〕 After winning a majority of delegates in the Democratic primaries of 2008, on August 23, leading up to the convention, the campaign announced that Senator Joe Biden of Delaware would be the Vice Presidential nominee. At the 2008 Democratic National Convention on August 27, Barack Obama was formally selected as the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 2008. He was the first African American in history to be nominated on a major party ticket.〔Jeff Zeleny, "(Obama Clinches Nomination; First Black Candidate to Lead a Major Party Ticket )," ''The New York Times'', June 4, 2008. Retrieved July 5, 2008.〕 On November 4, 2008, Obama defeated the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, making him the President-elect and the first African American elected President. He was the third sitting U.S. Senator, after Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy, to be elected President. Upon the vote of the Electoral College on December 15, 2008, and the subsequent certification thereof by a Joint Session of the United States Congress on January 8, 2009, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States and Joe Biden Vice President of the United States, with 365 of 538 electors. == End of the primaries == 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.〔 His opponent in the general election, Republican John McCain, passed the delegate threshold to become the presumptive nominee of his party on March 4.〔"(McCain wins GOP nomination; Huckabee bows out )," CNN News, March 5, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2008; Simon Rushton, "(McCain clinches Republican prize )," CNN News, March 4, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2008.〕 On June 7, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's remaining opponent in the quest for the Democratic nomination, conceded defeat at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado and urged her supporters to back Obama.〔Sasha Issenberg, "(Clinton ends her bid, hails Obama )," ''The Boston Globe'', June 8, 2008. Retrieved July 5, 2008. See also: Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny, "(Clinton Ready to End Bid and Endorse Obama )," ''The New York Times'', June 5, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2008.〕 After a June 26 dinner at which Obama encouraged his fundraisers to donate to Clinton's debt-saddled campaign,〔Jeff Zeleny, "(Obama Gives $2,300 for Clinton Debt )," ''The New York Times'', June 27, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2008.〕 Obama and Clinton ran their first post-primary event together in Unity, New Hampshire on June 27.〔"(Clinton and Obama rally together )," BBC News, June 27, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2008; Mark Leibovich and Jeff Zeleny, "(Obama and Clinton Hold First Post-Primary Event )," ''The New York Times'', June 28, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2008.〕 Over the first two weeks of July, the campaign ran a heavier schedule of fundraising events, drawing from former donors to Clinton's campaign.〔Michael Luo and Christopher Drew, "(Obama Picks Up Fund-Raising Pace )," ''The New York Times'', July 3, 2008. Retrieved July 6, 2008. See also: "(Obama, Clinton to hold joint fundraisers in NY )," Associated Press, July 5, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2008; Jonathan Weisman, "(Obama and Clinton, Together Again )," ''Washington Post'', July 5, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2008.〕 Obama strategically had pictures made with financial experts Warren Buffett and Paul Volcker so the public would perceive him as having inside knowledge of Wall Street.〔(Jonathan, The Promise President Obama, Year One, Simon & Schuster, 2010,ISBN 978-1-4391-0119-3 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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