Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I te marama o Mei 2002, i tono a Obama i tetahi rangahau hei aromatawai i ana tumanakohanga i roto i te whakataetae o te US Senate 2004. I waihangahia e ia he komiti pakanga, ka tiimata te kohi moni, ka tuhia e ia te kaitohutohu pāpāho torangapu a David Axelrod i te Akuhata 2002. I kii a Obama i tana tono i te Hanuere 2003.Ko Obama tetahi o nga hoa riri o te whakaekenga a George W. Bush ki Iraq i te tau 2003. I te Oketopa 2, 2002, i te ra i whakaae ai te Perehitini Bush me te Kaunihera mo te whakataunga honohono e whakamana ana i te Pakanga o Iraq, i korero a Obama ki te huihuinga tuatahi o Chicago anti-Iraq War, me te korero ki te pakanga. I korero ia ki tetahi atu huihuinga whawhai i te Poutu-te-rangi 2003 ka kii ki te mano "kaore e roa rawa" ki te whakamutu i te pakanga.Ko nga whakataunga a te Kawanatanga o te Republican a Peter Fitzgerald me tana mua o te Democratic a Carol Moseley Braun kia kaua e uru atu ki te pooti i hua mai i nga whakataetae tuwhera a te Democratic me te Republican e pa ana ki nga kaitono 15. I te pōtitanga tuatahi o Poutu-te-rangi 2004, i wikitoria a Obama i roto i tētahi pōtitanga ohorere, nāna ia i noho hei whetū e piki ake ana i roto i te Pāti Manapori ā-motu, i tīmata ai te whakapae mō tētahi wā e heke mai ana hei perehitini, ā, i arahi ki te whakaputanga anō o ōna kōrero, Dreams from My Father. I te Hōngongoi 2004, i tukuna e Obama te whaikorero matua i te 2004 Democratic National Convention, i tirohia e 9.1 miriona nga kaimatakitaki. I manakohia tana korero me te whakanui ake i tona mana i roto i te Pāti Manapori. Ko te hoa whawhai o Obama i roto i te pooti whānui, ko te toa o te Republican, ko Jack Ryan, i wehe atu i te whakataetae i te Pipiri 2004. E ono wiki i muri mai, ka whakaae a Alan Keyes ki te whakaingoa a te Ropu Reipa hei whakakapi i a Ryan. I te pōtitanga whānui o Whiringa-ā-rangi 2004, i wikitoria a Obama me te 70% o te pōti.  Pātai: He aha te pōtitanga i riro i a Obama?
Whiringa-ā-rangi 2004