{"id":27156,"date":"2012-12-30T04:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T04:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27156"},"modified":"2012-12-30T04:01:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T04:01:06","slug":"the-election-of-barack-obama-how-he-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27156","title":{"rendered":"The Election of Barack Obama: How He Won"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Election of Barack Obama: How He Won<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Palgrave Macmillan<\/a>
\nAugust 2010
\n178 pages
\nDOI: 10.1057\/9780230111790<\/a>
\nebook ISBN: 9780230111790
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780230103511
\nHardback ISBN: 9780230314603<\/p>\n

Baodong Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Political Science
\nUniversity of Utah<\/em><\/p>\n

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This book examines the historical election of Barack Obama<\/a> as the first African-American president from the perspective of racial relations. To trace the effect of time, Liu links Obama’s multiracial winning coalition to the two-party system and the profound impact of racial changes since 1965. Contrary to the popular momentum theory which emphasizes the early victories in mainly two states, Iowa<\/a> and New Hampshire<\/a>, this book demonstrates that state context matters. Obama’s electoral performance in a state is better explained by its level of racial tension, rather than the emotional need of Americans to elect a black president.<\/p>\n

List of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n