Introduction

T he Presidential Campaign of Barack Obama: A Critical Analysis of aRacially Transcendent Strategy examines one of the most profound presidential elections in the history of this country. This book offers an indepth look at the extraordinary political journey and meteoric rise of one individual, Barack Obama, from the state legislature in Illinois, to the Senate in Washington, D.C., and finally to the presidency of the United States. My main focus is to demonstrate that Barack Obama, as a Democrat, was uniquely poised to transcend race and party and was the first African American candidate with a realistic chance of winning the presidency in the United States. So, a central theme of this book is how Obama, as an African American, won election in conservative America of 2008.