Barack Obama Executive Order 13505, November 2008

Barack Obama, Margarita Lopez Torres, and the Path to Nomination

Racial Bias in the 2008 Presidential Election

We survey the evidence on whether racial attitudes negatively affected Barack Obama’s vote share in the 2008 presidential election. There is some evidence pointing toward this possibility. First, the increase in the Democratic vote share in the presidential election between 2004 and 2008 was relatively smaller in Appalachia and some Southern states. Second, there was a significantly smaller 200...

Linguistic Construction of a Winning Apology

The study analyzes the apology delivered by the then-democratic Presidential contender in 2007, Senator Barack H. Obama, to the Indian-American community. This apology succeeded in convincing American citizens of Obama’s goodwill and clean political standards, which eventually led him to surpass his chief opponent, Senator Hillary R. Clinton and become the President of the United States. The st...

Symposium Introduction Fdr and Obama: Are There Constitutional Law Lessons from the New Deal for the Obama Administration?

It was the popular media that first made the comparison between an Obama presidency and that of Franklin Roosevelt. The media did not wait until President Obama took office, but began the comparisons in earnest after the presidential election of 2008, perhaps most famously on Time Magazine’s November 24, 2008 cover depicting a photoshopped Barack Obama in a characteristic pose of the New Deal P...

A vision of hope for US domestic and international health policy.

‘The time has come – this year, in this new Administration – to modernize our health care system for the twenty-first century; to reduce costs for families and businesses; and to finally provide affordable, accessible health care for every American.’ Barack Obama, President-elect of the United States, 11 December 2008 ‘It’s time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to r...