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Article: With big lead in Illinois, Obama campaigns for other Democrats.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- October 15, 2004
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Byline: Gromer Jeffers Jr.
MILWAUKEE _ How far has Barack Obama risen, and how fast?
Pick your measurement: He's a state senator chosen to give a major primetime speech at his party's national convention. He is already touted as a potential president. But perhaps most telling of all: Obama has been imported to Wisconsin from neighboring Illinois to campaign for a two-term U.S. senator _ even though he has not won his own Senate seat yet.
Since his electrifying speech at the Democratic National Convention, Obama built a 45-point lead on conservative Republican Alan Keyes, giving him the leeway to apply his star power to races where Democrats ...