PoliticalObama's only mistake early in his political career (he later called it "a reckless rush" in which he was "spanked" by voters. Barack headed the Illinois Project Vote, which was a Voter registration drive aimed to increase black turnout in the 1992 elections. Leading this project, Obama accepted positions as an attorney at the civil rights law firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland and a professor at the University of Chicago Law School helped Carol Moseley Braun become the first black woman ever elected to the Senate. She trained a staff of 10 to 700 volunteers who achieved the goal of getting 400,000 African Americans registered in the state Crain's Chicago Business List. 40 under forty" powers. Although Barack did not need to raise money for the position he was offered, he started an ongoing campaign to raise money for the project. Sandy Newman, working side by side with Barack Obama on The Vote project, Obama said, "raised more money than any of our state directors ever had." He did a great job recruiting a broad spectrum of organizations and people, including many who didn't get along with each other. “During 1992-1996 Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for approximately 12 years, as a faculty member for four years (1992-1996) and as a senior lecturer for eight years (1996-2004). . During those 12 years he taught courses on trial and equal protection, voting rights, racism and the law. He published no legal scholarship and refused tenured positions, but he served eight years in the Illinois Senate during his twelve years at the university. Since he was… halfway there…, he had left the business world to teach at a school in downtown Chicago. But Ryan was forced to withdraw from the race when scandalous details about his divorce were made public. On July 7, 2004, the Democratic National Convention chased Barack Obama to give the keynote speech. In his speech, Obama said there is no such thing as a liberal America and a conservative America," he said. "There is a United States of America. There is no black America, white America, Latin America, and Asian America. There is the United States of America. Obama wrapped up his speech with phrases like “the audacity of hope.” This phrase was later used for his second book titled The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006), which was a best seller. On January 4, 2005, Barack Obama returned as a United States senator and his first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn.