The President of the United States can be in office for up to two four-year terms. Barack Obama is currently still in his first term and will be up for re-election in November 2012. Likely presidential candidates to run against him in 2012 will be Republican Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman and Senator Sarah Palin.
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President Obama was elected to the presidency in 2008; he was then re-elected in November 2012. If you are asking about his term as a Senator, he was a senator from the state of Illinois from 1996 to 2004; he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and served there until he left to run for president.
Barack Obama served two terms. He won the 2008 election, and was re-elected in 2012. He was not allowed to seek a third term-- the 22nd amendment to the Constitution does not permit anyone to serve more than two terms as president.
He was elected to the US Senate in 2004, and Senate terms are 6 years long. So, this is his first term as a US Senator. Before that he had a couple terms in the Illinois state senate.
He served 4 years as a U.S. Senator (2004 - 2008) and he is about to begin his second term as President, having been elected in November 2008 and then re-elected in November 2012.
President Obama is about to begin his second term. He was elected in 2008 and then re-elected in 2012.
He was a state senator in Illinois from 1996 to 2004, getting re-elected several times. He then served one term as a U.S. senator.