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The most obvious ground breaking feature of 2008 was the election of a black man to the presidency. (He actually has a white mother, but calls himself black.)

He is also the first from Hawaii, the first with a parent born in a third-world country and the first with two multiply-dvorced parents.

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It saw the election of the first black American President.

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The 2008 US presidential election was truly a historic election. The reason is that for the first time an Afro-American was elected to the US Presidency.

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elected a black man president

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