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Keyes hosted a radio call-in show, The Alan Keyes Show: America's Wake-Up Call, from 1994 until 1998 on WCBM. The show was briefly simulcast by National Empowerment Television. [2] In 2002, he briefly hosted a television commentary show on the MSNBC cable network, Alan Keyes Is Making Sense. He is a long time columnist for World Net Daily. [3]
Keyes attacked Barack Obama for voting against a bill that would have outlawed a form of late-term abortion. [41] Race became an issue in the contest between the two black candidates when Keyes claimed that he, not Obama, was the true "African-American". The black voters of Illinois voted 92% for Obama. [42] [43]
Obama's expected opponent in the general election, Republican primary winner Jack Ryan, withdrew from the race in June 2004. [8] In August 2004, with less than three months to go before Election Day, Alan Keyes accepted the Illinois Republican Party's nomination to replace Ryan. [9]
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April 15 – Republican candidate Alan Keyes officially announces that he has left the Republican Party and is considering joining the Constitution Party. [225] April 16 – Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama appear at a debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. [226]
Read Barack Obama Fast Facts from CNN to learn more about the 44th president of the United States. ... November 2004 - Wins the US Senate race in Illinois, defeating Alan Keyes. It is the first ...
The Obama-Keyes race was one of the first to be called on Election Day, November 2, 2004. At the start of Keyes's candidacy in August, Keyes had 24% support in the polls. He received 27% of the vote in the November general election to Obama's 70%. [91] Following the election, Keyes refused to call Obama to congratulate him. Media reports ...
In a debate in 2004, when questioned by Alan Keyes about what kind of sex education was "age appropriate" for kindergarteners, Obama said, "I'll give you an example, because I have a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and one of the things my wife and I talked to our daughter about is the possibility of somebody touching them ...