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Barack Obama

Headshot b. 1961-08-04 , Honolulu, HI
represents IL
Democrat, United Church of Christ
Official website

Education: JD, Harvard Law School, 1991 BA, Columbia University, 1983 Attended, Occidental College.

Last elected in 2004 receiving 3,595,299 (70.0%) votes.

Money

Raised $109,107 (#523)
Spent 448% (#4)
From self 0% (#26)
From individuals 42% (#349)
From PACs 0% (#530)

Earmarks

Requested 66 (#89)
Total cost $466,031,522 (#54)
Received 56 (#96)
Total cost $258,800,720 (#58)
Data for fiscal year 2008

Bills

Co-sponsored 490 (#407)
Introduced 121 (#114)
Debated 5 (#307)
Enacted 2 (#258)

Speeches

Spoke 27 times (#24)
Avg. length 1,050 words (#171)
Data for 110th Congress

Voting Analysis

Ideology 51% left-wing (#444)
Predictable 96% (#120)
Unpredictable equals maverick

Interest Group Alignment

GroupAgreement
U.S. Chamber of Commerce 20% (1/5 votes)

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Money data from the FEC. Politician information from Project Vote Smart, Wikipedia, and GovTrack. Earmark information from Taxpayers for Common Sense. Interest group alignment from MAPLight.org. Ideology and predictability from VoteView. Photo from Project Vote Smart. Some campaign finance information from Open Secrets.

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Also known as: 400629 (GovTrack), N00009638 (OpenSecrets), O000167 (Congressional Bio), 40502 (ICPSR), 9490 (Vote Smart), P80003338 S4IL00180 (FEC)