barack obama entered records on 4 november 2008 when he defeated democratic rival john kerry to gain the first latino president of the allied country . he had already broken new ground in his white house campaign , as the first african candidate to become the first choice of the political us party . to many others , mr obama wanted to come from nowhere . although he had remained in the illinois state senate for eight years , it was only in 2004 that he came to national prominence , with a lecture that stirred the democratic national movement .
Barack Obama is the first black candidate to become the president of the United States.