Candidates run for president because their party is convinced (or at least hoping) that the candidate can win for the party; the candidates run because people, like their party and others with vested interests, convince them that they're a winner and their head gets full of 'their power' to win. Oversimplified, but as close to the reason as you'll get.
Why not?!!
Yes. Barack Obama eventually won this campaign and became the 44th President of the United States.
So that he can create literacy laws...
Barack Obama
2012 only
no i want ronald regan to come back from his grave and run for president
His Inauguration
Becoming a US president.
He ran from the state of Illinois. He had been a U.S. senator from that state before running for president.
Barack Obama is our president but not for long his term is coming to an end and he wont be able to serve another term do to the fact that he has served all his terms and cant run for presidency again
As of 1/1/2010 President Obama is not a Freemason.
Barack Obama is the President of the United States of America.