Obama faces high expectations after resounding Senate victory
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Barack Obama&#39;s overwhelming victory in Illinois will make him only the fifth black US senator in history -- and one of the nation&#39;s brightest political stars.
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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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Senator Barack Obama was lifted to victory by a high turnout. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee defeated the better funded Mitt Romney.
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Barack Obama's triumph in the 2004 U.S. Senate race earned him a memorable send-off from his friends in the Illinois legislature &#151; they emptied his wallet in a take-no-prisoners night of poker.
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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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A victorious Barack Obama portrayed his decisive first-place finish in the Iowa Democratic caucuses as a "defining moment" that he said would lead the way to change in Washington and an end to the war in Iraq.
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âOur movement is real and change is coming to America,â said Obama in his speech.
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Barack Obama, the Democratic state legislator from Chicago who rose to national prominence in less than a year, was elected US senator Tuesday in a landslide victory that capped a
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Barack Obama, the Senate candidate from Illinois who made a splash at the Democratic National Convention, may soon be coming to a town near you.
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The photograph of a scowling Muhammad Ali standing over a prostrate Sonny Liston hanging in Illinois Democrat Barack Obama's office could be a metaphor for the knockout he is expected to deliver in his Senate race against Alan Keyes.
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Barack Obama was elected to the US Senate on Tuesday, capping an incredible 21-month political odyssey that began amid whispers that the South Side Democrat had a name no one would vote for and culminated with predictions he would be in the White House
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Exit polls indicate victory for Obama in state where Clinton had hoped to remain competitive
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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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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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Barack Obama greets enthusiastic crowds, but warns supporters they have to turn out
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Barack Obama triumphs over arch rival Hillary Clinton in the crucial state of South Carolina
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Barack Obama is welcoming his latest Democratic presidential primary triumph with a caution to exultant supporters that they've all got "months and miles" to go and it won't be easy.