The year of Obama : how Barack Obama won the White House / edited by Larry J. Sabato.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sabato, Larry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Election--2008.

Presidents.

United States.

Elections--United States.

Elections.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

Politics and government.

Obama, Barack.

Political campaigns--United States.

Political campaigns.

Physical Description:

viii, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Other Title:

How Barack Obama won the White House

Place of Publication:

New York : Longman, [2010]

Summary:

In 2008, Americans stunned the world-and themselves. Overcoming centuries of racial prejudice, they elected their first African-American president.

Something this significant doesn't just happen. A powerful mix of political, social, and demographic trends produced the election of our lifetime. Now that Barack Obama has taken the oath of office and has begun his governing journey, all of us need to fully understand the election that changed the face of our nation.

The Year of Obama is a product of that necessity. Some of the most perceptive analysts and shrewdest observers of American politics have joined forces to write a book that tosses aside much of the conventional wisdom about 2008 and substitutes interpretations that have been ignored in a rush to judgment. "Instant books" written by campaign aides and journalists-books filled with backroom gossip from the candidates' war rooms-have their place. But more useful, we hope, is a study that goes both broader and deeper, revealing how we arrived at that fateful day: November 4, 2008.

Contents:

Conventions : the contemporary significance of a great American institution / Justin Sizemore

The election of our lifetime / Larry Sabato

From Republican "lock" to Republican "lockout?" / Rhodes Cook

The 2008 presidential election : how Obama won and what it means / Alan Abramowitz

The congressional and gubernatorial contests / Bruce Larson

The impact of federal election laws on the 2008 presidential election / Michael Toner

Media in the 2008 election : 21st century campaign, same old story / Diana Owen

No laughing matter : the role of new media in the 2008 election / Girish J. Gulati

Game-changers : new technology and the 2008 presidential election / Michael Cornfield

The nominating process in 2008 : a look inside the Rube Goldberg. Did the rules decide? / Alex Theodoridis

Presidential election 2008 : an amazing race : so what's next? / Susan MacManus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780205650446

0205650449

OCLC:

316017380