Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Muna May 2002, Obama akarayira ongororo kuti aongorore zvaaizotarisira mumakwikwi eU.S. Senate ya2004. Akagadzira dare rokuronga mushandirapamwe, akatanga kuunganidza mari, uye akaunganidza nyanzvi yezvematongerwe enyika David Axelrod muna August 2002. Obama akazivisa zviri pamutemo kukwikwidza kwake muna Ndira 2003.Obama akanga ari muvengi wekutanga wekupinda kwehurumende yaGeorge W. Bush muna 2003 muIraq. Musi waOctober 2, 2002, zuva rakagamuchirwa naPurezidhendi Bush neCongress pamusoro pechisarudzo chakabatana chinobvumidza Hondo yeIraq, Obama akatarisana neChicago yekutanga yepamusoro-soro yekurwisana neHondo yeIraq, uye akataura pamusoro pehondo. Akataura kune mumwe musangano unopesana nehondo munaKurume 2003 uye akaudza boka revanhu kuti "hazvina kunonoka" kumisa hondo. Sarudzo dzeRepublican incumbent Peter Fitzgerald nemutungamiri wake weDemocratic Carol Moseley Braun kuti vasapinda musarudzo dzakakonzera kukwikwidza kwakavhurika kweDemocratic neRepublican kunosanganisira 15 vavhoterwa. Mukusarudzwa kwokutanga kwaMarch 2004, Obama akakunda mukukunda kwakanga kusingatarisirwi - uko usiku humwe chete kwakamuita nyeredzi iri kusimuka mukati meDemocratic Party yenyika, kwakatanga fungidziro pamusoro penguva yemberi yemutungamiri wenyika, uye kwakatungamirira kukubudiswazve kwemabhuku ake okuyeuka, Dreams from My Father. Muna July 2004, Obama akapa hurukuro inokosha paDemocratic National Convention ya2004, yakaonekwa nevateereri vanosvika mamiriyoni 9,1. Kutaura kwake kwakagamuchirwa zvakanaka uye kwakasimudza chimiro chake mukati meDemocratic Party. Anotarisirwa kupikisa Obama musarudzo huru, mukundi weRepublican wekutanga Jack Ryan, akabva mumakwikwi muna June 2004. Mavhiki matanhatu gare gare, Alan Keyes akagamuchira kudomwa kweRepublican kuti atsive Ryan. Musarudzo dzaNovember 2004, Obama akakunda ne70% yemavhoti.  Mubvunzo: Ndeipi yakanga iri sarudzo iyo Obama akakunda?
Mbudzi 2004