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...Opted out of living in the Illinois Executive Mansion in Springfield, choosing to remain in Chicago instead...
...handful of years in the Illinois state legislature and a single term in Congress. Many commentators have noted the parallels between Lincoln and Obama: the Illinois roots, the penchant for inspiring oratory, the historic nature of both candidacies. (Lest the connection be overlooked, Obama launched his presidential campaign in Springfield, Ill., Lincoln's hometown.) We could do worse than to have Obama follow Lincoln's path, knitting together a fractured country, raising our sights from the mundane to the sublime. Still, it's hard to draw a direct comparison between the two. Pundits may like to say our country...
Sarah Palin and Joe Biden both stumped in the state Monday, after Obama drew 30,000 people to a late-night rally in Springfield on Saturday. That's normally Republican territory, but Obama's crowd, spilling out of the high school football stadium, dwarfed the recent rally there for Sarah Palin. "It's kind of upsetting - we just got the Bass Pro parking lot," lamented one Republican...
...America," he declared at every stop. "Tomorrow, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election." He recalled how he began his quest for the nomination as an underdog in February, 2007, on the steps of the state capitol in Springfield, Illinois. "We knew this was going to be a steep climb," he declared at his final rally in Manassas Park, Va, to a late-night crowd of 90,000. "This happened because of you. We are going to change this country because...
...Obama's schedule speaks louder than any poll about the opportunities he senses in the electoral map, even as a number of late polls show the contest tightening slightly. On Saturday night, he held a rally in conservative Springfield, Mo., packing tens of thousands onto a high school football field in a part of the state that went nearly 2 to 1 for George W. Bush in the last election. On Sunday night, the campaign announced that Obama will make his final stop of the campaign on Election Day in Indiana, a state that has voted Republican in each...