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//The winning campaign:// In the 2008 election, Barack Obama and John McCain battled it out to win over the votes of Americans. Their campaigns had a lot to do with who ended up succeeding to become President. Barack Obama's was mainly campaign focused for the benefit of the everyday people of America. His strong belief in change and the anti-Bush sentiment had people going crazy for him. He had a good appeal as a candidate with his young age, multi-cultural race and charismatic persona. His grass roots campaign reached to a broad spectrum of people from the poor to the wealthy. In his campaign, Obama raised more than double of what his opponent, John McCain raised. This provided plenty of money for advertising his campaign. Obama was the first president to use the internet as a powerful source of getting to his voters. This provided younger citizens a connection to his younger persona. Everything Barack Obama did in his campaign proved to be a great success in the end.

// Barrack Obama's goals: // Obama established several promises to the people that were goals to enforce the country. One of his goals that he mentioned was to increase the capital gains and dividend taxes for higher-income taxpayers. This means that the wealthy population gained taxes as less fortunate benefited from this. He also wanted to eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-ups, which gave lower income businesses a more profitable business in the long run. The main issue Obama touched on was the topic of universal health care. This means that every American has access to their own health care. This issue raised a lot of controversy in the country but also raised a lot of praise. Obama has set many goals for the nation which will benefit everyones lives from the wealthy to the less fortunate.