Abstract
The year 2008 was different from earlier election years. Voter participation and turnout increased across the country. In 2000, about thirty-one million voters cast ballots in the presidential nominating contest. In 2008, nationwide, that number was easily surpassed: about fifty-five million primary voters went to the polls to cast a ballot. It was the first contested presidential nominating fight in eight years, since both the Republican and Democratic parties did not have an incumbent president running for office, and there was a lot of choice. On the Republican side, there were eleven official candidates, and on the Democratic side, there were nine. All the Republicans were white men, but on the Democratic side, there was a former first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, a viable female presidential candidate, and a freshman U.S. senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, the first black presidential candidate with a real chance of victory.
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Middlemass, K.M. (2009). Barack Obama and the Black Electorate In Georgia. In: Marable, M., Clarke, K. (eds) Barack Obama and African American Empowerment. The Critical Black Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230103290_16
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