2008.52.2UU

Single playing card from the "Obama Presidential Playing Cards" deck. Image in the back of each card in the deck is of Senator Obama on a blue field. Image in the center of the face of each card is framed in a black outlined rectangle. UU: Is the eight of Clubs and features "Janet Napolitano, Governor of Arizona." The governor stands beside a blue map of Arizona "Arizona Votes Obama."

There is a complete set of playing card (52) along with two Jokers. Governor Janet Napolitano graduated from Sandia High School in Albuquerque, NM in 1975 and was voted "Most Likely to Sussceed." She also graduated from Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA) where she won a Truman Scholarship, and went on to the University of Virginia Scool of Law--Juris Doctor. In 1993 President Clinton appointed her US attorney for the District of Arizona. A Democrat, she was elected Governor of Arizona in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. In November of 2005 "Time" magazine named her one of the "Five Best Governors in the US." She has served as the Chairman of the National Governors' Association, Chairman of the Western Governors' Association. In January of 2008 she endorsed Barack Obama for the Presidential Nomination of the Democrat party. Her name had been rumored to be considered for the Vice Presidential nomination on the ticket before Joe Biden was nominated.

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