2004 United States presidential election (hanhwa)

The Election of 2004 was the 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Incumbent Republican President Phil Gramm couldn’t run even if he wanted due to Presidential term-limits finally being set to two terms in 2002. It’s not like he could’ve won, either, due to his very low approval rating. Democratic candidate Barack Obama ran a campaign of optimism and moving on from Republican politicians. Meanwhile Republican candidate Bob Dole ran a negative campaign attacking Obama for being too much of an outsider and for being too far to the left in politics. The election could be considered a realigning election, as it saw the first victory of a Democrat since Jimmy Carter in 1976. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois ended 24 years of Republican control of the White House after defeating Senator Bob Dole in a landslide. He managed to unite the far-left and the moderate "Reagan Democrats" to pull off the first Democratic victory since 1976, while Dole's campaign suffered from miscues and he did not have the full support of the Republican party's conservative wing. Obama also became the first African American to become President. The Democrats kept the House which they had gained in the 1998 midterms, and also got a slight majority in the Senate.