"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there's the United States of America. ... We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the red states." — Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention Keynote, July 27, 2004
Which crisis most directly shaped Obama's 2008 presidential victory and early agenda?
- A
A foreign invasion of U.S. territory
- Bcheck_circle
The collapse of major financial institutions and the Great Recession
- C
A nuclear accident on U.S. soil
- D
Hyperinflation caused by the gold standard's reinstatement
Explanation
The September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing Great Recession defined the closing weeks of the campaign and Obama's first-term priorities (TARP implementation, ARRA stimulus).