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Obama won the election with 70% of the vote and a margin of 43% over Keyes, the largest margin of victory for a U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois history, and significantly larger than Democrat John Kerry's 10.3% margin in the concurrent presidential election. Obama carried 92 of the state's 102 counties, including several where Democrats had ...
This is a list of state, local and territory officials who have formally endorsed or voiced support for Barack Obama as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee for the 2008 U.S. presidential election No listing for Colorado found.
Local plans are 78.2% funded in 2022, compared to 77.8% for statewide plans. However, the historical funding trends of municipally-managed plans are similar, if not identical to statewide plans. Locally-managed public pension plans account for approximately 12% of all unfunded liabilities of non-federal retirement systems.
List of Barack Obama presidential campaign endorsements, 2012 Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Barack Obama presidential campaign endorsements .
In November 1994, U.S. Representative Mel Reynolds was re-elected to Illinois's 2nd congressional district despite being indicted for sexual assault and sexual abuse.Both Alice Palmer, Illinois State Senator for the 13th district Illinois Senate seat, [4] [5] as well as Jesse Jackson, Jr., 29-year-old son of Jesse Jackson Sr., showed interest in challenging Reynolds for his seat in the 1996 ...
President Barack Obama’s solicitor general, Neil Katyal, took a similar approach in a 2010 brief: “In the context of climate change, a regulatory solution will be far better suited to ...
This article is part of a series about Barack Obama Personal Early life and career Family Honors Public image Publications Dreams from My Father The Audacity of Hope A Promised Land Summer playlist Non-profit organizations Obama Foundation One America Appeal Illinois State Senator and U.S. Senator from Illinois Illinois State Senate tenure 2004 DNC keynote address U.S. Senate tenure 2004 ...
At 6 p.m. on September 19, 1995—the first day of the thirteen-week period in which candidates could circulate nominating petitions to earn a place on the ballot for the March 1996 primary—34-year-old Barack Obama announced his candidacy for Palmer's state Senate seat to a standing-room-only audience of 200 supporters at the Ramada Inn Lakeshore at 4900 S. Lake Shore Drive in Hyde Park ...