Obama’s path to the Democratic nomination: Key milestone #7

He wrote a book:

“The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream” argues for using civility and Americans’ “shared understandings” to help solve problems. “You don’t need a poll to know that the vast majority of Americans – Republican, Democrat, and independent – are weary of the dead zone that politics has become,” he writes. “[W]e sense – correctly – that the nation’s most significant challenges are being ignored.”