He will have to change that name to get elected. Is that Klingon or something?
His name is African-Islamic in origin. Obama's father is a Kenyan Muslim who apparently took little interest in his upbringing. His mother is a classic white liberal. He was reared in a middle-class essentially white cultural lifestyle far removed from the urban black experience.
He has a way of invoking religion and using pious-sounding words, but if you probe below his religious exterior it you find a bowl of unitarian-style mush mouldering there.
He's tall and well-spoken. That counts for something. But conservatives will reject him for his unabashed liberalism.