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How Barack Obama rode on his Kenyan heritage to most powerful seat

Barack Obama

Even with all his political swagger, President Barack Obama's odds for becoming the President of the United States were lower than most Americans.

In fact, if at the beginning of the 21st century you had told someone that America would have a black President before the close of the first decade, your political intuition would have been dismissed as third rate.

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