For Obama's Supporters, Triumph and Then Disaster
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NASHUA, N.H., Jan. 8 -- Tobin Van Ostern came here for a party. The 19-year-old sophomore at George Washington University had spent three weeks devoted to Sen. Barack Obama -- in Washington, Des Moines and in Londonderry, N.H., where he knocked on 90 doors Tuesday afternoon. Election night was to be...
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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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African-Americans voiced pride and amazement over Senator Barack Obamaâs victory in Iowa, with some seeing the result as a signal moment in race relations.
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Was it an eleventh-hour tide of sympathetic women, people reluctant to say they weren't backing a black candidate or problems with the polls themselves? For whatever reason, late public opinion surveys showed Barack Obama cruising to a triumph in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.
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A rout in parliamentary elections leaves the President defiant but vulnerable -- if his  political foes can unite
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News 25&#39;s Melissa Dunton was at the Democrat&#39;s victory party and has more on his message. From the moment Michelle Obama walked on stage, this crowd of a few thousand people knew it was in for something special.
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Millions of voters look at Barack Obama and see a future president. Maya Soetoro-Ng looks at her big brother and sees a father figure.
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Class emerged as a subtext during Barack Obamaâs failed attempt to unseat an incumbent congressman on the South Side of Chicago.
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Sure, it wasn't quite DiMaggio-esque in terms of its pop culture mythology, as far as "streaks" go. But Barack Obama's reign as the only perfect attendee of Senate votes among presidential hopefuls came to a crashing end last week.
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Did Obama make the impact he needed to dent Clinton's acknowledged status as front-runner?.
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The possible Presidential candidate got a warm reception in the key state. But once voters get to know him better, will Obama's inexperience be an asset or a liability?
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Democrat Barack Obama scored well among every segment of voters, including Republicans, in his landslide victory over GOP candidate Alan Keyes in their bid for the US Senate seat from Illinois.
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Barack Obama extended his winning streak over Hillary Rodham Clinton, while John McCain succeeded in countering recent victories by Mike Huckabee.
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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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Landslide margins among black voters fueled Barack Obama to his win Saturday in South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary, allowing him to overcome the edge that Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards had among whites.
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CONCORD, N.H. -- In the early evening of July 2, Sen. Barack Obama arrived at the end of a long gravel driveway belonging to Gary and Meg Hirshberg. In the back yard were 250 people -- potential supporters, potential donors -- waiting to hear from him. First, though, Obama had more important...
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Exit polls showed voters starkly divided by race, with Obama carried to victory by 81% of the African American vote