Obama announced his candidacy for the presidential election in 2008 while standing in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois in February 2007. Obama has symbolically linked his presidential campaign to that of Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 House Divided speech. When announcing his candidacy for presidential election he described in detail his working life in Illinois. Following the announcement there was much speculation on whether or not he would run in 2008.
At this time Obama’s name was added to opinion polls to a list of Democratic candidates according to USA Election Polls. In November 2006 the first poll ranked him in second place with 17% support among the Democrats behind Senator Hillary Clinton who was first with 28%. Then in December 2006, Obama spots at the Democratic Party for midterm election victories in New Hampshire.
Obama has spoken at political events throughout the Fall of 2006 to support Democratic candidates for the midterm elections. Then in September 2006 he was the featured speaker at the Iowa Senator Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry which has been attended by man presidential hopefuls. Then in October 2006 the speculation intensified that Obama would run for president, contrary to the earlier statements he made about intending to serve out his six-year Senate term until 2010.
Obama’s presidential campaign raised a total of $58 million during the first half of 2007, which was more than all other candidates and exceeded previous records for the first six months of any year prior to an election year. Of particular note is that 9.7 million of his second quarter donations came from contributions that were under two hundred dollars.
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