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Barack Obama

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American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, (L to R) mid-1970s in Honolulu

Barack Obama's school record in St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School. Obama was enrolled as "Barry Soetoro" (no. 1), and was wrongly recorded as an Indonesian citizen (no. 3) and a Muslim (no. 4).

Obama poses in the Green Room of the White House with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, 2009

Obama playing in a pickup game on the White House basketball court, 2009

The Obamas worship at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., January 2013

State Senator Obama and others celebrate the naming of a street in Chicago after ShoreBank co-founder Milton Davis in 1998

Results of the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois; Obama won the counties in blue.

Official portrait of Obama as a member of the United States Senate

Obama and U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) visit a Russian facility for dismantling mobile missiles (August 2005)

Obama on stage with wife and daughters just before announcing presidential candidacy in Springfield, Illinois, February 10, 2007

2008 electoral vote results. Obama won 365–173.

2012 electoral vote results. Obama won 332–206.

Obama takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2009

Obama delivers a speech at joint session of Congress with Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on February 24, 2009.

Obama visits an Aurora shooting victim at University of Colorado Hospital, 2012.

The White House was illuminated in rainbow colors on the evening of the Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling, June 26, 2015.

US employment statistics (unemployment rate and monthly changes in net employment) during Obama's tenure as U.S. president

Obama at a 2010 briefing on the BP oil spill at the Coast Guard Station Venice in Venice, Louisiana

Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House, March 23, 2010.

Maximum Out-of-Pocket Premium as Percentage of Family Income and federal poverty level, under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, starting in 2014 (Source: CRS)

Percentage of Individuals in the United States without Health Insurance, 1963–2015 (Source: JAMA)

June 4, 2009 − after his speech A New Beginning at Cairo University, U.S. President Obama participates in a roundtable interview in 2009 with among others Jamal Khashoggi, Bambang Harymurti and Nahum Barnea.

Obama with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, January 2015.

Obama meets with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House, October 2016.

Meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron during the 2010 G20 Toronto summit

Obama after a trilateral meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (right), White House Cabinet Room, May 2009

Obama meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres in the Oval Office, May 2009

President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and ISIS, September 29, 2015.

Obama and members of the national security team receive an update on Operation Neptune's Spear in the White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011. See also: Situation Room

Obama talks with Benjamin Netanyahu, March 2013.

President Obama meeting with Cuban President Raúl Castro in Panama, April 2015

Obama meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in September 2015.

G8 leaders watching the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final

Obama with his then-new successor Donald Trump and his later successor Joe Biden, at the former's inauguration on January 20, 2017

Obama playing golf with the President of Argentina Mauricio Macri, October 2017

Obama and his wife Michelle at the inauguration of Joe Biden

Job growth during the presidency of Obama compared to other presidents, as measured as a cumulative percentage change from month after inauguration to end of his term

First official portrait of Barack Obama as President of the United States, 2009

Obama meets with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa, February 19, 2009.

Obama and Donald Trump, January 20, 2017

Obama was elected over Republican nominee John McCain in the general election and was inaugurated alongside his running mate Joe Biden, on January 20, 2009.

Democratic Party (United States)

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One of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.

Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.

The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms

Leaders of the Democratic Party during the first half of the 20th century on 14 June 1913: Secretary of State William J. Bryan, Josephus Daniels, President Woodrow Wilson, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 32nd and 33rd presidents of the United States (1933–1945; 1945–1953), featured on a campaign poster for the 1944 presidential election

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979

Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998

Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007

President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009

Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010

Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016

Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and others look on

Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008

President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013

Self-identified Democrats (blue) versus self-identified Republicans (red) (January–June 2010 data)

Higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans are members of union households.

Elected at age 33, Jon Ossoff is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.

Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Julián Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

Including the incumbent, Joe Biden, 16 Democrats have served as President of the United States.

Donald Trump

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American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Trump at the New York Military Academy in 1964

Trump (far right) and wife Ivana in the receiving line of a state dinner for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985, with U.S. president Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan

Entrance of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City

Trump and New Jersey Generals quarterback Doug Flutie at a 1985 press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower

Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Trump at a New York Mets baseball game in 2009

Trump and President Bill Clinton in June 2000

Trump campaigning in Arizona, March 2016.

2016 electoral vote results. Trump won 304–227

Women's March in Washington on January 21, 2017

Trump is sworn in as president by Chief Justice John Roberts

Trump speaks to automobile workers in Michigan, March 2017

Trump and group of officials and advisors on the way from White House complex to St. John's Church

Trump examines border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa, California.

Trump with the other G7 leaders at the 45th summit in France, 2019

Trump and Xi Jinping at 2018 G20 Summit.

Trump, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the 2017 Riyadh summit in Saudi Arabia

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting with Taliban delegation in Qatar in September 2020

Trump meets Kim Jong-un at the Singapore summit, June 2018

Putin and Trump shaking hands at the G20 Osaka summit, June 2019

Trump and his third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.

Trump conducts a COVID-19 press briefing with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on March 15, 2020

Poland's president Andrzej Duda visited the White House on June 24, 2020, the first foreign leader to do so since the start of the pandemic.

Trump boards helicopter for COVID-19 treatment on October 2, 2020

Trump discharged on October 5, 2020, from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Members of House of Representatives vote on two articles of impeachment, December 18, 2019

Trump displaying the front page of The Washington Post reporting his acquittal by the Senate

Trump at a 2020 campaign rally in Arizona

2020 Electoral College results, Trump lost 232–306

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signing the second impeachment of Trump

Trump speaks at the "Rally to Protect Our Elections" in Phoenix, Arizona, July 2021.

Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, the Toronto Star, and CNN compiled data on "false or misleading claims" (orange background), and "false claims" (violet foreground), respectively.

Trump lost the 2020 United States presidential election to Joe Biden but refused to concede defeat, falsely claiming widespread electoral fraud and attempting to overturn the results by pressuring government officials, mounting scores of unsuccessful legal challenges, and obstructing the presidential transition.

2020 United States presidential election

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The 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

States and territories with at least one local, state, or federal primary election date or method of voting altered as of August 5, 2020.

A poll worker sanitizes an election booth in Davis, California

Chart of July 2020 opinion survey on likelihood of voting by mail in November election, compared to 2016

President Donald Trump with Amy Coney Barrett and her family, just prior to Barrett being announced as the nominee, September 26, 2020

George Floyd protests in Minneapolis on May 26

Hexagonal cartogram of the number of electoral college votes. States with opposite outcomes from 2016 are hatched.

People celebrate in the streets near the White House after the major networks projected Biden the winner of the election on November 7.

Senator Chuck Schumer addresses a crowd celebrating in Times Square, New York City shortly after the election was called for Biden.

Voters cast ballots at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa

Screenshot of a tweet from Trump's Twitter account where he repeatedly and falsely claimed he had won.

CNN fact checker Daniel Dale reported that through June 9, 2021, Trump had issued 132 written statements since leaving office, of which "a third have included lies about the election"—more than any other subject.

Pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6

Results by state, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

A discontinuous cartogram of the 2020 United States presidential election

A continuous county-level cartogram of the 2020 United States presidential election

Election results by Congressional District

Shaded election results by county (red-purple-blue scale)

The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president Donald Trump and incumbent vice president Mike Pence.

John McCain

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American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018.

Lieutenant McCain (front right) with his squadron and T-2 Buckeye trainer, 1965

Lieutenant Commander McCain being interviewed after his return from Vietnam, April 1973

Lieutenant Commander McCain greeting President Nixon, May 1973

The residence of John and Cindy McCain in Phoenix, Arizona

McCain in 1983, during his first term in the House of Representatives

President Ronald Reagan greets McCain as First Lady Nancy Reagan looks on, March 1987

President George H. W. Bush meets with McCain, 1990

The 1992 christening of USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) at Bath Iron Works, with his mother Roberta, son Jack, daughter Meghan, and wife Cindy

McCain's grandfather and father on board a U.S. ship in Tokyo Bay, circa end of World War II in 1945

McCain's Gallup Poll favorable/unfavorable ratings, 1999–2009.

McCain's Senate website from 2003 to 2006 illustrated his concern about pork barrel spending.

U.S. President George W. Bush with Senator McCain, December 4, 2004

General David Petraeus and McCain in Baghdad, November 2007

McCain formally announces his candidacy for president in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2007

President Bush holds Cindy McCain's hand as he endorses her husband for president, March 5, 2008

The Palins and McCains campaign in Fairfax, Virginia, following the 2008 Republican National Convention on September 10

U.S. President Barack Obama and McCain at a press conference in March 2009

McCain in his Senate office, November 2010

The "Three Amigos" walking in Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan in July 2011: McCain (second from left), Lindsey Graham (second from right in front), Joe Lieberman (right in front)

Kerry (far left) and McCain (third from left) with members of the Saudi Royal Family after greeting the new King Salman of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, January 2015

McCain addresses anti-government protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine, pledging his support for their cause, December 15, 2013

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen meets with McCain, who is the leader of the U.S. Senate delegation, June 2016

McCain campaigning with former Governor Romney in Mesa, Arizona, during his 2016 re-election campaign

The National March on the NRA in August 2018. The NRA spent $7.74 million to support John McCain.

McCain votes no on repealing the Affordable Care Act by giving a thumbs down.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Senators Joni Ernst, Daniel Sullivan, John McCain, Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham, and Cory Gardner attending the 2016 International Institute for Strategic Studies Asia Security Summit in Singapore

Grave of John McCain III next to his Naval Academy classmate Charles R. Larson at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery

Cindy McCain, Secretary James Mattis and Chief of Staff John F. Kelly lay a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

McCain's daughter Meghan mourning while he lies in state at the Arizona State Capitol

McCain's congressional voting scores, from the American Conservative Union (orange line; 100 is most conservative) and Americans for Democratic Action (blue line; 100 is most liberal)

McCain speaks in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Memorial Day, 2008, while wearing his Purple Heart.

McCain and his wife Cindy watch in 2011 as their son Jimmy pins aviator wings on their son Ensign John Sidney McCain IV.

President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia awards a National Hero of Georgia order to McCain in Batumi, January 2010.

In 2022, President Joe Biden awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously.

President of the United States

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Head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

George Washington, the first president of the United States

President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers a radio address, 1933

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and others look on

President Donald Trump delivers his 2018 State of the Union Address, with Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan

President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Gorbachev sign the 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord in the White House.

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, successfully preserved the Union during the American Civil War.

President Barack Obama with his Supreme Court appointee Justice Sotomayor, 2009

President Ronald Reagan reviews honor guards during a state visit to China, 1984

President Woodrow Wilson throws out the ceremonial first ball on Opening Day, 1916

President Jimmy Carter (left) debates Republican nominee Ronald Reagan on October 28, 1980.

Map of the United States showing the number of electoral votes allocated following the 2010 census to each state and the District of Columbia for the 2012, 2016 and 2020 presidential elections; it also notes that Maine and Nebraska distribute electors by way of the congressional district method. 270 electoral votes are required for a majority out of 538 votes possible.

Franklin D. Roosevelt won a record four presidential elections (1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944), leading to the adoption of a two-term limit.

President William McKinley and his successor, Theodore Roosevelt

President Reagan surrounded by Secret Service

From left: George H. W. Bush, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter. Photo taken in the Oval Office on January 7, 2009; Obama formally took office thirteen days later.

Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, 2013

The presidential limousine, dubbed "The Beast"

The presidential plane, called Air Force One when the president is on board

Marine One helicopter, when the president is aboard

Joe Biden is the 46th and current president of the United States, having assumed office on January 20, 2021.

Republican Party (United States)

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One of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

Political Spectrum Libertarian Left Centrist Right Authoritarian

In 2008, Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona and Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska were defeated by Democratic Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden of Illinois and Delaware, respectively.

2008 United States presidential election

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The 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008.

The incumbent in 2008, George W. Bush. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 2009.

2008 DNC during Stevie Wonder's performance

The Palins and McCains campaigning in Fairfax, Virginia, September 10, 2008, following the Republican National Convention

Obama campaigning as a symbol of change in Cleveland, Ohio with a "Change We Need" sign

Cartogram of the Electoral Votes for 2008 United States presidential election, each square representing one electoral vote. The map shows the impact of winning swing states. Nebraska, being one of two states that are not winner-take-all, for the first time had its votes split, with its second congressional district voting for Obama.

An Obama sign displayed at a home in Arlington, VA, on November 1, 2008.

States/districts in the 2008 United States Presidential election in which the margin of victory was less than 5%. Blue states/districts went for Obama, red for McCain. Yellow states were won by either candidate by 5% or more. Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia and Iowa were won by Bush in 2004 but were won by Obama by a margin of more than 5% in 2008.

Swing by state. States are listed by (increasing) percentage of Democratic votes, showing how the share of the vote changed between 2004 and 2008. Excluding the candidates' home states, only five states trended more Republican: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and West Virginia.

Popular vote by county. Red represents counties that went for McCain; blue represents counties that went for Obama. Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont had all counties go to Obama. Oklahoma had all counties go to McCain.

Presidential popular votes by county as a scale from red/Republican to blue/Democratic.

Cartogram of popular vote with each county rescaled in proportion to its population. Deeper blue represents a Democratic majority; brighter red represents a Republican majority.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/|title=Election maps|website=www-personal.umich.edu}}</ref>

Voting shifts per county from the 2004 to the 2008 election. Darker blue indicates the county voted more Democratic. Darker red indicates the county voted more Republican.

Change in vote margins at the county level from the 2004 election to the 2008 election. Obama made dramatic gains in every region of the country except for Arizona (McCain's home state), Alaska (Palin's home state), Appalachia, and the inner South, where McCain improved over Bush.

Results by Congressional Districts, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote.

Final poll closing times on Election Day.
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The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.

2012 United States presidential election

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The 57th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.

President Obama talks with Ron Klain during presidential debate preparations. Senator John Kerry, at podium, played the role of Mitt Romney during the preparatory sessions.

President Obama casts his ballot at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Chicago.

Swing from 2008 to 2012 in each state. Only six states swung more Democratic in 2012: Alaska, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, and New York. The arrows to the right represent how many places up or down on the list the state moved since 2008. States are listed by (increasing) percentage of Democratic votes.

Obama takes a phone call from Romney conceding the election early Wednesday morning in Chicago.

Results by county. Blue denotes counties that went to Obama; red denotes counties that went to Romney. Hawaii, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont had all counties go to Obama. Oklahoma, Utah, and West Virginia had all counties go to Romney.

Popular vote by county shaded on a scale from red/Republican to blue/Democratic.

Results by state and the District of Columbia, scaled by number of Electors per state.

Cartogram of popular vote by county shaded on a scale from red/Republican to blue/Democratic where each county has been rescaled in proportion to its population.

Cartogram of the electoral vote results, with each square representing one electoral vote.

Change in popular vote margins at the county level from the 2008 election to the 2012 election. Blue denotes counties that voted more Democratic. Red denotes counties that voted more Republican. Romney's strongest improvements over McCain were in Utah and Appalachia, while Obama's strongest gains were in Alaska, the New York area, and the Gulf states.

Treemap of the popular vote by county, state, and locally predominant recipient

The Empire State Building in New York City was lit blue when CNN called Ohio for Obama, projecting him the winner of the election. Likewise, red would have been used if Romney won.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/new-york-state-building-displays-election-results-article-1.1197707 |title= Empire State Building lights up to broadcast election results |first=Charlie |last=Wells |newspaper=Daily News|location=New York |date=November 6, 2012}}</ref>

The Obamas and the Bidens embrace following the television announcement of their victory.

The Obamas and the Bidens walk on stage at the election night victory celebration at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Former Governor Mitt Romney meets with President Barack Obama at the White House after the 2012 presidential election.

Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, incumbent Vice President Joe Biden, were re-elected to a second term.

Biden at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in 2013

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