Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te wikitoria o Alan Keyes ki te wikitoria i tana nohoanga o te Senate me te oati ki te tari i te Hanuere 4, 2005, ka tuhia e Obama "The Audacity of Hope", i tukuna i te Oketopa 2006. Ahakoa i te tīmatanga i kī ia kāore ōna mahere wawe ki te whakataetae mō te peresideni, ā, ka mahi i tōna wā Senate katoa, ka haere a Obama ki
Ka tū ki te pōti hei Perehitini 44 o Te Hononga o Amerika i te 4 o Whiringa-ā-rangi 2008, hei te tangata Pākehā tuatahi i pōti ki te tūranga nui rawa o te motu. I te 6 o Noema 2012, i whiriwhiria a Obama mo te wa tuarua hei Perehitini o te United States, i te wikitoria i te kawana o mua o Massachusetts, a Mitt Romney.