Title: 2008: A Look Back at President Barack Obama's Historic Election
Headings: 2008: A Look Back at President Barack Obama's Historic Election
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2008: A Look Back at President Barack Obama's Historic Election

Content: — Mark Lennihan / AP
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US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama helped volunteers at an United Auto Workers union hall, phone canvassing to gather votes for him in Indianapolis, Indiana, November 04, 2008. — EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP/Getty Images
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People line up to vote at a polling station on election day in Washington, DC, November 4, 2008. Millions of voters across the United States went to the polls in record numbers to choose between Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. — JOSHUA ROBERTS / REUTERS
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., center, and his wife Michelle, cast their votes at a polling place in Chicago, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. At left is their daughter Sasha. — Jae C. Hong / AP
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Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and his wife Michelle vote November 4, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. — Joe Raedle / Getty Images
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U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) supporters Mary Decker (C), Annete Davis (L) and others celebrate as his win of the presidential election is announced November 4, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham, along with Selma and Montgomery, were touchstones in the civil rights movement where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led massive protests which eventually led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ending voter disfranchisement against African-Americans. Americans voted in the first presidential election featuring an African-American candidate, Democratic contender Sen. Barack Obama, who ran against Republican Sen. John McCain.