- 1st Place, The Road to Office
- David Burnett/Contact Press Images for People
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), Democratic candidate for president, on board his plane en route to Missouri, where he will campaign in St. Louis and Kansas City. October 18, 2008.
- 1st
- David Burnett
- Contact Press Images for People
- 2nd
- Ron Antonelli
- New York Daily News
- 3rd
- Drew Angerer
- Freelance / Ohio University
- HM
- Chip Somodevilla
- Getty Images
- HM
- Brian Snyder
- Reuters
- HM
- Brendan Smialowski
- freelance for The New York Times
- HM
- Allison Shelley
- THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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