In a tight race, Barack Obama captured 2 out of the 5 votes cast.
Here are some facts that you might have missed about Barack Obama:
He looks good in a bathing suit.
Many celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Macy Gray, and Halle Berry support Barack's 2008 presidential campaign.
Because of his wife's suggestion, Barack quit smoking before his Democratic campaign began.
Do The Right Thing was the movie Barack and his future wife Michelle Obama saw on their first date.
In his free time, Barack likes to play poker and basketball.
Barack's height is 6' 1½" (1.87m).
Obama lived for several years as a child in Indonesia due to his mother remarrying an Indonesian. As a result, he now has a half sister that is both Canadian (due to the fact she married a Canadian and that is where she resides) and Indonesian. That is why his wife Michelle refers to their holidays as a miniature United Nations.
A fundraiser organized by David Geffen raised $1,000,000 for his campaign for Presidency in February of 2007 in Hollywood, CA attended by many Hollywood Stars such as Oprah, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston, Steven Spielberg and many more.
In February of 2007, Obama announced he would not run any sort of negative campaign for Presidency.
Obama was first elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996, then re-elected in 2002, and 2004 to the U.S. Senate.
On Saturday, February 10, 2007, in Springfield, the state capital of Illinois, Barack Obama, U.S. Senator of Illinois announced his candidacy for the President of the United States.
In 2004, Senator Barack Obama won the seat in the US Senate by getting 70% of the vote, beating out
Alan Keyes.
In December of 2004, Senator Barack Obama made a $1.9 million deal for three books.
Barack Obama was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review.
