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On March 16, 2004, State Senator Barack Obama won the Democratic primary, and businessman Jack Ryan won the Republican primary. Three months later, Ryan announced his withdrawal from the race four days after the Chicago Tribune persuaded a California court to release records from Ryan's custody case, which included allegations that Ryan had ...
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 2004, Obama campaigned for the U.S. Senate, participating in the first Senate election in which both major party candidates were African American, with Alan Keyes running as the Republican candidate. Obama won the election, gaining a seat previously represented by Republican Peter Fitzgerald.
In the general election of November 2004, Obama received 70% of the vote to Keyes's 27%, the largest victory margin for a statewide race in Illinois history. [13] He won 92 of the state's 102 counties, including several where Democrats have not historically done well. Final results of the 2004 U.S. Senate election in Illinois by county:
In 2004, Barack Obama delivered the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in Boston. It catapulted a little-known state legislator to national prominence (AP)
Barack Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he was elected to the United States Senate.During this part of his career, Obama continued teaching constitutional law part time at the University of Chicago Law School as he had done as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004.
Illinois delegates told The State Journal-Register on July 28, 2004, that Barack Obama's keynote address was "one of the most beautiful, inspiring speeches I've ever heard."
The Illinois Senate career of Barack Obama began in 1997 after his first election in 1996 to a two-year term in the Illinois Senate representing Illinois' 13th Legislative District in Chicago. He was re-elected in 1998 to a four-year term and re-elected again in 2002 to another four-year term. He resigned from the Illinois Senate in 2004 ...