Barack Obama assassination plot in Denver a racist, and that is not him." Gartrell was released from federal custody on June 12, 2009. Barack Obama assassination plot in Denver The Barack Obama assassination plot in Denver refers to an alleged plot by Shawn Robert Adolf, Tharin Robert Gartrell and Nathan Dwaine Johnson to assassinate Barack Obama, then the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nominee. The trio allegedly planned to shoot Senator Obama with a high-powered rifle during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. The alleged motive for the attempted assassination was a white supremacist belief that an African American should not be elected President of the
Statewide opinion polling for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries come from each state's primary or caucus article. Click on the specific election (link) column to see the sources used in those articles. † Barack Obama was not on the ballot in Michigan. Statewide opinion polling for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries This article is a collection of statewide public opinion polls that have been conducted relating to the Democratic presidential primaries, 2008. A graphic summary of the data in map form follows. For state and territory names abbreviated in the maps in this article, see: "List of US postal abbreviations". The following table shows a summary of the