Obama draws large crowd at college rally
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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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He was welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd to an outdoor rally for John Kerry in Philadelphia Monday -- Clinton&#39;s first campaign appearance since his heart surgery last month.
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Barack Obama raised $32 million for his Democratic presidential nominating campaign in January, a huge haul that aides said will give him the ability to compete in a potentially long and costly race.
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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is heightening his flirtation with a White House run Sunday during his first trip to New Hampshire, where over 2,000 people had snatched up tickets to see him speak.
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Barack Obama's campaign says 9,000 people showed up for his Los Angeles rally, but it's hard to know for sure. The crowd sprawled around the stage set up in a park, a sea of upturned faces and waving campaign signs.
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He's got social networking pages online. He visits college campuses, where enthusiastic student groups lobby hard to get their peers involved in politics.
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Returning to the state that dashed his presidential hopes in 2004, Democratic U.S. Sen. John Kerry rallied with college students on Tuesday for next's month elections, urging them to "Take back Ohio, take back our country."
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A group of Columbia University students is hoping to capture some of the grass-roots energy behind Democrat Barack Obama's White House bid Â by filming his supporters on the home turf of his chief rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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CLINTON, Iowa -- Standing in front of a large banner that blared "Clinton," surrounded by students in Clinton Community College sweat shirts, Sen. Barack Obama offhandedly mentioned the obvious.
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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama handed his jacket to wife Michelle at one point during a steamy rally Sunday in a school gym, but it was clear she's more than a coat-holder for the Democratic presidential candidate.
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<img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20071214/capt.f57ea1426d6c4429962423b3e4211b49.obama_profile_wxje108.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=OXcsj5AtkEOfR5azzq5HQg--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., reacts to cheers of a supporter while speaking to a packed gymnasium at South Aiken High School, in Aiken, S.C., during a town hall meeting in this Oct. 6, 2007, file photo. It was a Wednesday night ritual for Barack Obama: After a day of debating taxes, the death penalty or some other divisive issue, he'd head to a meeting of 'The Committee.'\
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Chanting slogans and waving signs, thousands of demonstrators -- mostly high school and college students and teachers -- gathered yesterday on the steps of the Supreme Court to support the use of race in programs to maintain school integration.
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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama told thousands of cheering supporters Friday night that seeing such a racially diverse crowd in the shadow of the South Carolina statehouse would have surprised people a generation ago.
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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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A number of leading public universities are drawing increasingly impressive and affluent students.
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The high-wattage gala for Barack Obama at Oprah Winfrey's estate was billed as a gala "celebration" for the Democratic presidential candidate.
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The majority of US college students favor Democratic challenger John Kerry over President Bush, according to a Harvard University poll released on Thursday that sees a dramatic rise in campus voter turnout.