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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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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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Barack Obama took a big step on Thursday toward becoming the first black U.S. president when his campaign for change caught fire in Iowa and swept him past Hillary Clinton in the opening Democratic nominating contest.
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Barack Obama's White House campaign receives a boost with the backing of Senator Edward Kennedy.
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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama began running a new ad Monday promising change and implicitly criticizing his Democratic rivals for being conventional.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Barack Obama inched closer to a presidential run with his first visit to New Hampshire, home of the inaugural primary election in the campaign for the White House.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he can dance better than at least one of the Republican presidential hopefuls.
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Democratic star Senator Barack Obama is on his first trip to the important political testing ground of New Hampshire as he lays the foundation for a possible 2008 presidential run.
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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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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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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Barack Obama took the first big step to winning the Democratic nomination on Thursday with a victory in Iowa, while underdog Mike Huckabee capped a stunning political rise to beat Republican rival Mitt Romney.
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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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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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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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Sen. Barack Obama sought Sunday to use his South Carolina victory to expand his appeal, saying the first Southern primary reflects what Americans are looking for.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama padded his campaign fundraising numbers Friday with small-and-big buck events, telling one overflow crowd he'd champion an energy revolution on the homefront and improve America's foreign reputation as president.
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Illinois Sen. Barack ObamaÃ¢ÂÂs charismatic persona and status as perhaps the strongest-ever African-American contender for president has had him riding a wave of publicity in the early weeks of his bid for the 2008 Democratic nomination.