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Four people ran for president during the presidential election in the year 2008 Who were they? 44 people ran for president in 2008, unless this question is for second graders.
Barack Obama.
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Because no black person ran for President in that time frame.
None, but John mccain ran in 2008
I think there was none because the only black that ran was Jesse Jackson.
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Via election. He ran and people voted for "him".
People voted for him. Very few voters thought negatively of the race or skin color of Barack Obama. And for the record, Mr. Obama is as "white" as he is "black," being born to a white/American mother and a black/African father.
The 44th president is the first African American is, Barak Obama.
There were three men who ran for president in 1860. There may have been others who wanted to be president buy only three ran. These three were; Abraham Lincoln, John Breckinridge, and John Bell.
It depends entirely on the country. In many cases, black presidents come from Africa where such a thing is completely expected since blacks are the overwhelming majority of the population. As concerns the United States, it has a black president because a black person ran for president and was elected. There is no rule or "understanding" in the United States that the President must be from a certain racial, ethnic, or religious background.