Word: illinoise
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Biden's gaffe made him an unlikely running mate, and much will be made of the bridge-building that Obama's choice represents. But in the end, Obama picked him for the simplest of reasons: The six-term Senator from Delaware is strongest in areas where the freshman from Illinois...
The assignment was a daunting one for Nugen, who signed on to Obama's campaign in February 2007 as political director - the guy in charge of schmoozing and cajoling the superdelegates to endorse the Illinois senator. By the time Nugen arrived in Denver the convention was already severely behind schedule...
If identity politics might gain some black votes for Obama, it can also cost him votes elsewhere. So how many Americans will agree with Wright that race is still front and center? The number is notoriously slippery, because voters don't always tell pollsters the truth. At the Weekly Standard...
And it's true that Obama doesn't have a thick record of businesses he has built or governments he has run. For one thing, he has moved around too much. The restlessness in his résumé is striking: two years at Occidental College, two years at Columbia...
As for his conventional training, friends of Obama's like to point out that 12 years as a lawmaker is more experience than Abraham Lincoln, the original beanpole from Illinois, had in 1860. They note that the issues Obama is most drawn to - health-care reform, juvenile justice, poverty - aren...