Rising Democrat Star Wins Illinois Senate Seat-TV
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Democratic rising star Barack Obama swept into the US Senate on Tuesday, becoming only the third black ever popularly elected to the chamber, US television networks projected.
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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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By JESSE NOYES  Deval Patrick wasn't the only big winner Tuesday night. The CBS- owned Channel 38 earned major political points by flooding the zone with blanket prime-time coverage of the primary.
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Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said Friday he has the backing of his Democratic colleagues to become the party's second-ranked member when the new Congress convenes in January.
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MANCHESTER, N.H  - New York Sen. Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire Democratic primary on Tuesday, a huge victory that bolstered her shaken bid for the party's presidential nomination after a stinging third place loss in Iowa last week, NBC projected.
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The Democrats are riding high, but a TV actor or a maverick could still be victorious.
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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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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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Alan Keyes, the conservative Maryland political commentator whom Illinois Republicans turned to after weeks of searching for a replacement Senate candidate, agreed Sunday to run against a rising Democratic star who has only grown stronger amid GOP scandal and disarray.
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Former Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo easily won the Democratic nomination for New York attorney general Tuesday, defeating a former New York City public advocate in the race to succeed incumbent Eliot Spitzer.
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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama won the first battle of the Super Tuesday showdown when Democratic Party voters in Indonesia -- where Obama spent four years of his childhood -- picked him over Sen. Hillary Clinton.
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Buoyed by voters embracing his message of change, Barack Obama routed Hillary Clinton in the Illinois primary, a home-state win of one of the richest Super Tuesday prizes. John McCain defeated Mitt Romney on the Republican side.
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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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Democrats enter the fall campaign  with a clear edge in the high-stakes fight for control of the  U.S. Congress, riding a wave of momentum that has them  positioned to retake the U.S. House of Representatives and make  significant gains in the Senate.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Illinois Senator Barack Obama and New York Senator Hillary Clinton each claimed victories in two states, according to early network projections, on the biggest day of voting in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Democrats enter the fall campaign   with a clear edge in the high-stakes fight for control of the   U.S. Congress, riding a wave of momentum that has them   positioned to retake the U.S. House of Representatives and make   significant gains in the Senate.
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A year ago, nobody would have predicted that Illinois&#39; next US senator would be either a Chicago state senator who delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National