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Barack Obama: “I would not have gotten elected president had it not been…”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Barack Obama Discusses Leadership, Democracy, and AI at Hamilton College

Published | Video Starts at 41:50

And that's what's happened with media. I'm not so old, I'm not such a luddite that I don't have like a phone and social media accounts and all that stuff. In fact, I would not have gotten elected president had it not been for us being probably one of the earliest adapters of social media. The reason was because my campaigns were so broke initially that I had to rely on 20 year old volunteers who actually understood it. I was all like, what's this thing called a website? (41:50–41:59)

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Asserts that early adoption of social media was crucial to his presidential election.

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