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- noun politics, neologism
Fervent admiration of Barack Obama.
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Examples
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USA Today that the rapid rise of "Tebowing" as a word "has seldom been equaled, mirroring, for example, the rate of adoption of the word Obamamania in early 2008."
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The American people will see exactly what type of person they elected, Obamamania is still going strong right now and yet his ratings keep dropping.
CNN Poll: Obama approval drops 7 points over last 100 days 2009
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But Obamamania is pretty mild stuff compared with our rhetorical history.
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If people are paying attention, you will see that Obamamania is rocking all over the world!
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What can you tell us about this so-called Obamamania that's going on?
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To clarify, it wasn't too long ago that SA was debating the phenomenon known as Obamamania, and if we retrace the lines of thought and subsequent comments, it would be evident that an Obama victory was far from certain (I had suggested that perhaps McCain would turn pragmatic and see off the Obama challenge).
Singapore Angle 2010
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I believe in "Obamamania" more than I believe in Obama himself.
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This is why 200,000 Berliners turned out to see Obama and why he draws enormous crowds wherever he goes -- why "Obamamania" is a term at all, conjuring as it does the "Beatlemania" of 40-plus years ago that also, so it turns out, announced a shift in human consciousness.
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In the interest of disclosure, I am not writing under the influence of homegrown 'Obamamania' gone global.
Shoaib Harris: McCain's Afghanistan: Macabre Visions Through The Eyes of an Ex-President 2008
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But that has not stopped "Obamamania" from sweeping the continent, and particularly Kenya, where his picture adorns billboards and minibuses.
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