Politician Obama's only mistake at the start of his political career (he later called it a "reckless race" during which he received a "spanking" from voters Barack led the Illinois Voting Project, which was a voter registration campaign aimed at increasing black turnout in the 1992 elections. While leading this project, Obama accepted positions such as attorney within the. civil rights law firm Miner, Barnhill and Galland and as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He helped Carol Moseley Braun become the first black woman ever elected to the Senate. a team of 10 to 700 volunteers who achieved their goal of registering 400,000 African Americans in the state. This made Barack one of Crain's Chicago Business List. Although he did not need to raise money for the position he was offered, he launched an ongoing campaign to raise funds for the project. Sandy Newman, who works alongside Barack Obama on the The Vote Project, Obama said, "raised more money than any of our state directors had ever raised. He did a great work by mobilizing a wide range of organizations and people, many of whom did not get along well with each other “Between 1992 and 1996, Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. for about 12 years, as a lecturer for four years (1992-1996) and as a lecturer for eight years (1996-2004). process and equal protection, voting rights, racism and the law He published no legal studies and declined tenured positions, but served eight years in the Illinois Senate during his term. twelve years in college Since he was in the editorial business, he had left the business world to teach at a school in inner-city Chicago. But Ryan was forced to drop out of the race when scandalous details of his divorce were made public. On July 7, 2004, the Democratic National Convention hounded Barack Obama to deliver the keynote address. During his speech, Obama said there is not a liberal America and a conservative America," he said. "There is a United States of America. There is no black America, white America, Latin America and Asian America. There is the United States of America. Obama ends his speech with phrases like “the audacity of hope.” This phrase was later used for his second book titled The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006), which was a bestseller. On January 4, 2005, Barack Obama returned to the post of US senator and his first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn..