Learning from the Obama Campaign: reply to W. Frederick Zimmerman (A historical and political lesson plan)

The present article discusses the context of the presidential campaign in the United States in 2008. in particular, the analysis examines the implications of the campaign of candidate of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama, starting from the experiment of W. Frederick Zimmerman in his paper “Should Barack Obama Be President?”. The author’s analysis looks at three essential aspects: the identity of the future president; the particular aspects of his speech on the occasion of the Democratic Convention of 2004 and the organization of the campaign.