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THE CANDIDATE - How the son of a Kenyan economist became an Illinois Everyman
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 04, 2004 06:14pm |
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| Category | Profile |
| Media | Magazine - New Yorker |
| News Date | Monday, May 31, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | People in Illinois seem largely unaware of Obama’s long, annealing trip into their midst, although they often remark on his unusual calm. Now forty-two and a state senator, Obama emerged, in March, from a raucous primary as the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate. In a seven-person field, he received a remarkable fifty-three per cent of the vote—he even won the “collar” counties around Chicago, communities that supposedly would never support a black candidate. And everyone recalls that, as the votes were being tallied at his headquarters on Election Night, he seemed to be the least agitated person in the place. |
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