Barack Obama’s Coalition Power and the GOP Gerrymandering Backlash.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Four presidential elections have passed since Barack Obama’s won the presidency in 2008, and we are still experiencing the backlash from his first election. As a U.S. senator from Illinois, Obama rose rapidly to power and became the most successful Black presidential candidate having won the Democratic nomination and then the presidency. While Jesse Jackson did not reach the White House, his presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988 became a turning point that significantly shaped the path for future […]