Keyes, Obama Senate contest takes unusual path
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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
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Republican US Senate candidate Alan Keyes wasn&#39;t invited to speak Sunday at a dinner sponsored by the New Trier Township Republican Organization, but he showed up anyway.
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Often trading personal insults, Alan Keyes and Barack Obama bickered over everything from broad government philosophy to details of policy on education and gay marriage Tuesday evening in the third and final debate of their Senate race.
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Alan Keyes, a Republican whose two previous runs for president ended in failure, is making a third try for the White House.
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At times it was hard to tell who was the Democrat and who was the Republican in what has shaped up as one of the most important Senate races in the country.
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WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats made little headway in their efforts to build up a meaningful majority in Tuesday&#39;s battles over 34 Senate seats.
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The candidates for the US Senate in Illinois hit the polls early Tuesday morning with their families in tow amid drizzly weather. Republican Alan Keyes, accompanied by
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By taking that many hotly contested seats, they have a shot at capturing the upper chamber. Here&#39;s how it could work out. Not so long ago, the Democrats&#39; chances of wresting the Senate away from the Republicans looked not impossible but remote.
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Barack Obama has had a season of remarkable fortune and is now often treated as though he is already the next senator from Illinois.
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Senator Barack ObamaÂs move has created complications for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats.
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Republicans and Democrats swapped seats in Georgia and Illinois as they battled for Senate control in a string of races concentrated in the South and West.
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In addition to President Bush&#39;s resounding electoral triumph, his expansive coattails also will likely have a long-reverberating political impact upon the Senate.
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Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been thrust into a social and political debate that transcends their candidacies.
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com. Candidate for the US Senate Barack Obama (D-IL) and his daughter Malia (L), wife Michelle and youngest daughter Sasha (R) celebrate his victory with supporters over Repulican rival Alan Keyes November 2, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Barack Obama's rivals in the Democratic presidential race contend he sometimes voted "present" on tough issues rather than take a firm stand.
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Conventional wisdom held that the Democrats elected to the Senate last year would largely be moderates, trying to tailor their votes in Washington to appeal to as broad a group of voters as possible to secure their seats. If so, that must mean opposing President BushÃ¢ÂÂs agenda is an increasingly moderate proposition.
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Tuesdayâs primary results did not match the fervor that had been signaled by Barack Obamaâs dramatic march of rallies leading up to the vote.