• one of the international polls on the 2008 U.S. presidential election found 22 percent of German women would have an affair with Barack Obama?

Facts on topics related to International opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008

Barack Obama

• "Barack the Magic Negro" is a controversial satirical song by Paul Shanklin which refers to Barack Obama as a magical Negro?
• "There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama" is a folk song first performed in the village where Barack Obama's great-great-great grandfather was born?
• Barack Obama biographer Christoph von Marschall compares his life story with the American Dream?
• Barack Obama met his future speechwriter Jon Favreau while rehearsing his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention?
• Barack Obama nominated former United Mine Workers official Joe Main to serve as the head of Mine Safety and Health Administration?
• Barack Obama's most recent State of the Union address was almost scheduled to preempt the broadcast of "LA X", the final season premiere of the television show Lost?
• Facebook polls asking whether Barack Obama should be assassinated have been investigated by the government as possible felonious threats against the President of the United States?
• Harvard lecturer Marshall Ganz is credited with devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training for Barack Obama’s winning 2008 presidential campaign?
• Hillary Rodham Clinton (pictured) may be ineligible for appointment as United States Secretary of State by Barack Obama unless a Saxbe fix can be worked out?
• Oregon judge Marco A. Hernandez has been nominated to serve in the federal courts by both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama?

Hillary Rodham Clinton

• Hillary Rodham Clinton (pictured) may be ineligible for appointment as United States Secretary of State by Barack Obama unless a Saxbe fix can be worked out?
• the documentary film Countdown to Zero, which analyzes the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons, has been privately screened for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?
• while running for the presidential nomination in 2008, Hillary Clinton credited political advisor and lobbyist Anne Wexler with providing her first job in politics?

Sarah Palin

• Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School?
• a Saturday Night Live sketch, featuring Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin respectively, was dismissed by Palin's spokeswoman as "sexist"?
• when Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigns on July 26, 2009, Craig Campbell (pictured) will become the new Lieutenant Governor of Alaska?