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Barack obama — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:46:05 GMT

The best bio for Obama is in Wikipedia. I've posted a small amount of it here, for the full article go here.

Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois. The U.S. Senate Historical Office lists him as the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate.^[1]

Obama served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He launched his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2003. Midway through campaigning as the Democratic nominee, Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and became a nationally known political figure.^[2] He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 with a landslide 70% of the vote.^[3]

In February 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for the 2008 U.S. presidential election.^[4] Recent polls of Democratic voters show him narrowing the gap with front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton D-NY),^[5] and media sources identify him as "the first black person viewed as a possible winner."^[6] Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as leading issues of his campaign.^[7] (

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