Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan Barack Obama ya tabbatar da nadin a watan Yunin 2008, hasashen cewa za ta kasance mai neman takarar mataimakin shugaban kasa a tikitin jam'iyyar Democrat ya ci gaba. Jaridar "Washington Post" ta lissafa ta a matsayin babbar dama ga takarar 2008. James Carville da Bob Novak suma sun ambaci sunan Sebelius, kuma Wesley Clark, wanda kuma ake ganin zai iya zama abokin takara, ya goyi bayan Sebelius a bainar jama'a, yana mai cewa ita ce "mataimakin shugaban Amurka na gaba". Hasashe cewa nadin Mataimakin Shugaban kasa ya kasance a nan gaba ya karu da gaskiyar cewa shugabannin jam'iyyar Democrat sun zaba ta ne don ba da amsa ta jam'iyyar su ga Shugaban Republican George W. Bush na 2008 Adireshin Tarayyar Tarayya. Washegari, ta goyi bayan yakin neman zaben Obama
, mako guda kafin taron Kansas a ranar Talata mai girma. Obama ya lashe zaben da sauki, tare da goyon bayan 74%.