Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan da ya ci nasara da Alan Keyes don lashe kujerar majalisar dattijai kuma ya rantsar da shi a ranar 4 ga Janairu, 2005, Obama ya rubuta "The Audacity of Hope", wanda aka saki a watan Oktoba 2006. Duk da cewa da farko ya ce ba shi da wani shiri na gaggawa na tsayawa takarar shugaban kasa kuma zai yi cikakken wa'adinsa a majalisar dattijai, Obama zai ci gaba da tsayawa takara
don kuma za a zabe shi a matsayin Shugaban Amurka na 44 a ranar 4 ga Nuwamba, 2008, ya zama dan Afirka na farko da za a zabe shi zuwa mafi girman ofishin kasar. A ranar 6 ga Nuwamba, 2012, an sake zabar Obama a karo na biyu a matsayin Shugaban Amurka, inda ya kayar da tsohon gwamnan Massachusetts Mitt Romney.