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Obama was born away from the continent of the U.S he was born in Hawaii
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He attended the Punahou School, an elite private school where, as he wrote in his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, he first began to understand the tensions inherent in his mixed racial background. After two years at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he transferred to Columbia University in New York City, from which he graduated in 1983 with a degree in political science.
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In 1996 Obama started his political carrier, winning in the Illinois state senate as a democrat from the south
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When Republican Peter Fitzgerald said he would renounce his seat in the U.S senate Obama saw this as a chance and he went for it and he won by getting 70% of the votes while Keyes only got 27$
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Obama starts his running with is running mate , Joseph R. Biden Jr a senator from Deleware.
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Obama’s opponent was long-time Arizona Senator John S. McCain, a Vietnam veteran and former prisoner-of-war, who chose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. If elected, Palin would have been the nation’s first-ever female vice-president
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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.
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Barack Obama got elected president of the United States on November 4th,2008 but didn't take office until January 20th 2009
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Obamacare started on March 10, 2010 which was a cheap and affordable life insurance.
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Obama's presidency ended on January 20, 2017
