Summary
ONE BRIGHT SPOT in an otherwise dismal Election Day landscape was the success of Barack Obama.
The promising Democratic Party star won his bid for a U.S. Senate seat representing Illinois, which coincidentally is the home state of the last African-American to hold a seat in the U.S. Senate, Carol Moseley Braun.See the full content of this document
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Barack Obama: A Beacon of Hope
Obama is now only the third African-American since Reconstruction to win a place in the Senate; Edward Brooke of Massachusetts was the first one.
What makes Obama's win...See the full content of this document
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