Looking back at US elections 2008: Younge America: Soapbox nation Gary Younge watches Democrats and Republicans slug it out at a local pub debate in Roanoke, Virginia during the 2008 US election campaign

Looking back at US election 2008: Bill Clinton comes to Roanoke, Virginia After Clinton's endorsement of Obama at the 2012 Democratic national convention, the Guardian looks back to 2008 when Clinton gave a speech after Obama, Biden and...

Looking back at US election 2008: Racial landscapes Gary Younge meets the leaders of Roanoke's black community to discuss segregation, the civil rights movement and what Barack Obama might have underestimated

Looking back at US election 2008: Barack Obama will be behind enemy lines Gary Younge looks ahead to Barack Obama's surprise visit to the traditionally Republican domain of Roanoke, Virginia

Looking back at US elections 2008: The second presidential debate Gary Younge watches the second presidential debate with local Democrats in Roanoke, Virginia to gauge their thoughts on how Obama fared against McCain

Looking back at US election 2008: Barack Obama's inauguration Gary Younge joins a group of Barack Obama supporters as they travel to Washington to watch his inauguration

Looking back at US elections 2008: Road trip to Las Vegas Gary Younge embarks on a classic American road trip, driving across the Rockies, through the deserts of Utah, and towards the neon lure of Las Vegas

Looking back at US elections 2008: The great divide between democrats and republicans The Guardian's Gary Younge witnesses a heated confrontation between two people outside a Barack Obama rally in Las Vegas and talks to them about issues...

The 56th Presidential election in American history took place on November 4, 2008. This was the first election in which I voted in the primaries, and there were a lot of exciting candidates to vote for. But first, let's see how George W....

The 57th Presidential election in American history took place on November 6, 2012, my 31st birthday. Oh crap, I'm getting old. Barack Obama became President as the economy really sucked. It was known the Great Recession, and the Obama...

THE AMENDED WORLD ANTI-DOPING CODE WAS ADOPTED AT THE WORLD CONFERENCE ON DOPING IN SPORTS IN SPAIN IN NOVEMBER 2007. BUT FIFA HAS REFUSED TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE CODE'S NEW PROCEDURES AND THE TWO AGENCIES FAILED TO REACH AN AGREEMENT AT A...

George W. Bush is the second son of a former president to become president, after John Quincy Adams all the way back in 1825. Always the black sheep of the Bush dynasty, he eventually became governor of Texas, and then ran for president...

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Looking Back at the 2008 US Elections: Truth booth: The Obama delusion Looking back at the 2008 US Elections, Ralph Nader's youth spokesperson, Ashley Sanders, thinks the Obama phenomenon has all the appearance of an activist movement...

US Elections 2012: can Obama still electrify Democratic voters? In 2008, Barack Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate in decades to win over the majority of voters in Virginia. Four years later, Gary Younge and...

US Elections 2012: Gary Younge talks to voters on election day in Obama's neighbourhood in Chicago Guardian columnist Gary Younge heads to Obama's local polling station in Hyde Park, Chicago, to talk to people about election day and how...

Nancy was raped by a policeman during Kenya's 2008 post-election violence, in which over 1,200 people were killed. It is still causing friction in her marriage. "I see all men as the man that raped me," she says. She won't vote again and...

US Elections 2012: Do Mitt Romney's sums add up? The US economy has flatlined since Barack Obama was elected in 2008. Here, economists Kevin Gallagher (Boston University) and Richard B Freeman (Harvard) discuss Mitt Romney's five-point...

US Elections 2012: Thomas Frank on how Republicans seized the US economic agenda Subscribe to the Guardian HEREref='http://bitly.com/UvkFpD' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>HERE Thomas Frank, author of Pity the Billionaire: The...

Looking back at the 2008 US Elections: 'I've never seen so many people vote before' Marc Maron meets students in Ohio who are battling to get disenfranchised black communites out to the polls - some for the first time

A video lecture taking you through the 2008 primaries and election between Barack Obama and John McCain.

US Elections 2012: Obama's black vote: 'They look at me like I was a traitor' Gary Younge talks to Virginia state representative Onzlee Ware, who he first met in Roanoke in 2008. Back then, Ware helped mobilise the black vote for Obama...

Boris Johnson is strongly associated with London's bike hire scheme, although Ken Livingstone points out that the scheme was first announced in 2008 while he was still mayor. But how safe is cycling in the capital? As the 2012 mayoral...