Barack Obama Celebrates Landslide Senate Victory
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com. Candidate for the US Senate Barack Obama (D-IL) and his daughter Malia (L), wife Michelle and youngest daughter Sasha (R) celebrate his victory with supporters over Repulican rival Alan Keyes November 2, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Sen.-elect Barack Obama is under no illusions that his superstar status in the Democratic Party will translate into political clout in a Republican-majority Congress.
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CHICAGO | There was little doubt Barack Obama would defeat Alan Keyes Tuesday -- the question was by how much. &quot;We can look forward to the future.
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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, the Senate's lone African-American, praised Rep. Ben Cardin on Wednesday in a Maryland Senate race pitting a black Republican against a white Democrat.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama paid homage to former President Clinton Wednesday, but said voters want more than "the same old thing."
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Even before being sworn in today as Illinois' new senator, Barack Obama was asked Monday about his place in history. "I haven't done anything yet," said the media favorite, the first black male Democrat elected to the Senate.
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Buoyed by voters embracing his message of change, Barack Obama routed Hillary Clinton in the Illinois primary on Tuesday, a home-state victory that also offered them one of the richest prizes in the nation. Sen. John McCain defeated former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on the Republican side.
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Sen. Barack Obama was drawing strong support across race and gender lines Tuesday in Virginia that showed signs he was eating into the core voters of his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, a Democrat, won the US Senate seat of retiring Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald, CNN and MSNBC reported.
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On the heels of his victory in South Carolina, Senator Barack Obama is set to receive the endorsement of Senator Edward M. Kennedy on Monday.
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama drew an overflow crowd at a college rally Friday, the type of turnout usually reserved for winning basketball teams or rock bands.
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Democratic rising-star Barack Obama became the lone African American senator, beating ultra-conservative talk show host Alan Keyes in a landslide in Illinois.
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Barack Obama rebounded from a close  loss to Hillary Clinton and won the support of the heavily  Hispanic union representing Las Vegas casino workers on  Wednesday ahead of the next Democratic presidential contest.
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Barack Obama won his first term in the US Senate in 2004. Now, many in the Democratic Party think he could be the next president.
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Barack Obama's overwhelming victory in Illinois will make him only the fifth black U.S. senator in history &#151; and one of the nation's brightest political stars.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama coasted to victory in Georgia over rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, riding a wave of support from the state's large black population.
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Senator Barack Obama was lifted to victory by a high turnout. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee defeated the better funded Mitt Romney.