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>Callie Shell, USA, Aurora Photos for Time.

Barack Obama campaigns for presidential candidacy in a gym in Iowa, in January. In his bid for the US Democratic Party presidential candidacy Senator Barack Obama broke all fundraising records, largely by harnessing support from smaller donors
via the internet. Obama clinched the Democratic nomination in June, and was elected 44th President of the USA on November 4, the first African American to hold the post.
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