Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Munguva yesarudzo yemutungamiri wenyika yeU.S. ya2008, "The Rising" yakatanga kushandiswa senziyo yekuvhara mushandirapamwe wekutsvaga mushandirapamwe naJohn Edwards. Pasinei zvapo nomugariro wakasviba werwiyo rwacho, rwiyo rwacho runoti "Simukai" rwakafanana nokurudziro yokugumisa hurukuro dzaEdwards. Mushandirapamwe waHillary Rodham Clinton wakazotangawo kushandisa rwiyo urwu, kunyanya pakupera kwemisangano yake kana kupemberera kukunda. Kutevera kutsigira kwaApril 2008 kwaSpringsteen kwaBarack Obama, mushandirapamwe waObama
vakatanga kutsiva "Guta reMwenje Inopofumadza" reU2 ne"Kusimuka" senziyo yavo yokutanga yomusangano.