Obama Joins Race With Goals Set High
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 10 -- Illinois Sen. Barack Obama formally opened his campaign for president here Saturday, invoking memories of Abraham Lincoln and challenging a new generation to help him transform the nation.
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois  - Democrat Barack Obama launched his 2008 White House run on Saturday with a pledge to end the war in Iraq and bridge the partisan divide that has blocked political progress on issues from energy to health care.
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Sen. Barack Obama raised $32.5 million from April through June, his presidential campaign said Sunday, in what is a record for a Democratic running for the White House.
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Democrat Barack Obama hoped to  extend his winning streak over Hillary Clinton in their  bruising Democratic presidential race when voters made their  choices in three battlegrounds around the U.S. capital on  Tuesday.
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October 30, 2004 - US Senate hopeful Barack Obama shored up his base and helped other Democrats Saturday while candidates in the tight 8th District congressional race zipped across Chicago&#39;s suburbs in a frantic final push for votes before Tuesday&#39;s
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Bloomberg - July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Illinois Senator Barack Obama raised at least $32.5 million in the last three months, outpacing New York Senator Hillary Clinton and breaking fund-raising records for a Democratic presidential candidate.
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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton go head-to-head in their bid to become the Democratic Party candidate.
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Barack Obama announced his bid for president Saturday, a black man evoking Abraham Lincoln's ability to unite a nation and a Democrat portraying himself as a fresh face capable of leading a new generation.
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Everybody wants a piece of Barack Obama. Ahead by a mile in his race for the US Senate from Illinois, the youthful state senator with huge ambitions is taking his show on the road
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Sen. Barack Obama has launched an eight-figure, 24-state barrage of television advertising, heading into the Super Tuesday contests and beyond, that will carry his message to twice as many states as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's ads will reach with her current ad buy.
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Democrat Barack Obama exploded into the 2008 White House race on a crusade to cleanse politics: nearly five months of campaign trail rough-and-tumble later, he is still in Hillary Clinton&#39;s shadow.
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Presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama raised at least $32.5 million in the second quarter of the 2008 fundraising cycle, topping his first quarter fundraising effort, the Illinois Democrat announced Sunday in a statement.
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Sen. Barack Obama declared his latest trio of Democratic primary victories Tuesday part of a new majority drawing people from every region and every group behind his call for change.
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Democrat Barack Obama said Thursday night he is running for president to help those who are working harder for less but don't think anyone is listening to them. Fresh from a presidential debate in suburban Des Moines, Obama joked of his performance: "I thought I was perfect."
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Barack Obama took to the ice-bound campaign trail, a day after launching his 2008 White House bid with a vow to lead a generational drive to purge the cynicism from US politics.
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Sen. Barack Obama kicked off his Democratic presidential campaign in Alabama with appeals to both high-dollar donors and average voters on Monday. For $25, hundreds of supporters had a chance to hear the Illinois freshman speak in a big hotel ballroom in downtown Birmingham.
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois  - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama opens his 2008 White House run on Saturday in a setting rife with symbolism and historic links to Abraham Lincoln's fight to end slavery.