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He, in fact, was one of the few exceptions, as he cruised to an easy re election as Indiana s chief executive over Democrat Jill Long Thompson. Now, he said, he wished Obama "all the best. The country needs him to be successful." Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said that Abraham Lincoln worried that it would take a century for freed slaves to approach equality. "And it was 100 years," Goodwin said, referring Moncler Men down Vest Hooded Zip Green to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. "And it was another 40 years since those advances for the first black candidate" to make a serious run at the White House. Obama who came to national prominence with a speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in which he called for the end of both the racial and partisan divisions that had split the nation into red and blue states tried to transcend race in his campaign. 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