U.S. ELECTIONS

Barack Obama:

Is the elected President of the United States, after occupying the post of senator for the state of Illinois. In addition, is the fifth African American legislator in the Senate of the United States, the third since the era of reconstruction. It was also the first African-American candidate of the Democratic Party and will be the first to exercise the presidential office.

He graduated from Columbia University and at the prestigious law school of Harvard Law School,
In 2000, after not getting a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States, announced his candidacy.

Hillary Clinton:

Is Junior Senator of the United States by the State of New York and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the presidential election of 2008. She is married to Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States.

Study at Wellesley College and she began his career as a lawyer after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973 and in 1975 she married the future president. On two occasions appeared as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in the United States and work for the Rose Law Firm important.

In January 2007, Senator Clinton announced through its website, its intentions to become the first woman president of the United States

Hillary Clinton lost in the elections for the presidency, but Barack Obama named the Secretary of State.

Jonh MacCain:

McCain graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying from Strike Fighter aircraft carrier. During the Vietnam War, almost lost his life in the fire on the USS Forrestal in 1967.

John McCain began his 2000 presidential campaign as a kind of insurgent unknown in search of a reform of the system to exclude from Washington's influence strong economic interests.

Lost presidential election against Barack Obama.

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