The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary by Dan Balz, Haynes Johnson

By Dan Balz, Haynes Johnson

The election of 2008 shattered political limitations, illuminated undercurrents of race, gender, and sophistication, and ignited a unprecedented conflict between one of the most ambitious opponents ever to hunt the presidency in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain. It used to be an election that performed out opposed to a backdrop of conflict, financial cave in, and deep pessimism concerning the destiny. Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson this crusade from the applicants’ first forays into Iowa and New Hampshire to the old evening of Obama’s victory party. they give behind-the-scenes information of turning issues just like the wonderful endorsement of Obama by way of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. They probe the strategic errors of the Clinton crusade and the tale at the back of Obama’s leap forward association. They forged in new gentle McCain’s fight for survival within the Republican primaries, his choice of Sarah Palin as his operating mate, and the industrial meltdown that ensured Obama’s victory. particular interviews with the applicants and their best strategists produce intimate images of Obama, Clinton, and McCain lower than rigidity in the course of the longest and costliest presidential crusade in American heritage. Balz and Johnson additionally movement faraway the crusade path to hear electorate in battleground states show their deep anxieties in regards to the darkening economic system and the demanding situations dealing with the us. This audiobook is a riveting account of ways this election not just marked a brand new period in American politics but additionally provided a try out of old proportions at a watershed second for our state.

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Malia asked playfully. ” In his second year in the Senate, Obama stepped up his outside political activity, appearing at Democratic Party events in Kansas and Minnesota and Ohio. Ben Nelson, the conservative Democrat from Nebraska, asked him to speak at a dinner in Omaha. Obama, he said, was about the only national Democrat he would invite into his state. Everywhere Obama went the crowds were far larger than those for other national candidates. And everywhere people were urging him to run for president.

It was left to his seven-year-old daughter, Malia, to offer a humbling note. On the day he was sworn into office, Obama and his family were walking around the Capitol grounds. ” Malia asked playfully. ” In his second year in the Senate, Obama stepped up his outside political activity, appearing at Democratic Party events in Kansas and Minnesota and Ohio. Ben Nelson, the conservative Democrat from Nebraska, asked him to speak at a dinner in Omaha. Obama, he said, was about the only national Democrat he would invite into his state.

A reporter to John McCain Four months later, Friday, July 13, 2007, Concord, New Hampshire It wasn’t the kind of campaign trip to New Hampshire John McCain originally planned. The Granite State was his state, the state he counted on to rescue him from political disaster. By this Friday in July 2007, the McCain campaign has imploded. Not only has it run out of money with what appears to be reckless mismanagement, but McCain has just had to fire key members of his staff; others voluntarily leave his side.

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