Barack Obama is the most surprising American president

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Out of 45 presidents, he is the only one who has a non European name. Ethnic Luos are less than 0.0000000001% of the US population and 1 out of 45 presidents is an ethnic Luo. Ethnic Germans are the biggest ethnic group in the US at 14.4% of the US population and 3 out of 45 presidents Hoover, Eisenhower, Trump are ethnic German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luo_people_of_Kenya_and_Tanzania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans

 

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In the 2008 election McCain handily won the white vote. It was minorities who put Obama into the white house.

http://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/how-groups-voted-2008/