2008: Condi Rice vs. Barack Obama

[Suburbia]

A historic matchup: First Black female presidential nominee, former Secy. of State Condi Rice vs. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, first Black male presidential nominee...

Who wins?

[President Johnson]

Rice is too tied to Bush at the time and I guess more Republicans would not have bothered to turn out. Obama wins quite handily.



✓ Senator Barack H. Obama (D-IL)/Senator Joseph R. Biden (D-DE): 379 EV. (53.39%)
Former SoS Condolezza Rice (R-DC)/Former Governor Michael Huckabee (R-AR): 159 EV. (45.06%)

[HillGoose]

condi wins a 50 state landslide then immediately proceeds to liberate Iran, Syria, Zimbabwe, Belarus, and North Korea all within her first term

[NewYorkExpress]

Condi is very tied to Bush, but, as a moderate, while she'd have trouble in a GOP primary, her social policy stances would allow her to run as a change agent, regardless of her foreign policy stances, and being African-American herself neutralizes Obama's massive advantage there, and assuming Obama doesn't pick Hillary or another woman as his running mate, she'd have an advantage with women too, as she's pro-choice.

It's not enough to actually win, the environment was just too toxic for Republicans, but it's enough to take away Obama's mandate in 2008.



Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)/Governor Kathleen Sebelius (D-KS) 50%
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice (R-CA)/Former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) 48.75%