Obama sits on historic 45-point lead
by UPI
Link to ArticleRising Democratic star Barack Obama is poised to trounce latecomer Alan Keyes for Illinois' open U.S. Senate seat by an unprecedented 3-1 ratio.Obama, a state senator from Chicago, currently enjoys a 45-point lead -- 68 percent to 23 percent -- over Keyes, according to new polling figures released Sunday by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and KMOV-TV. Keyes is a conservative radio talk-show host and one-time presidential hopeful, who recently moved from Maryland to seek the seat vacated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald, "I can't remember the last time you had a gap like this between two newcomers. Usually, when you have this kind of gap, it's the popular incumbent against a sacrificial lamb. This may be unprecedented," said Del Ali, head of Research 2000, the Maryland-based firm that conducted the poll of 800 likely voters. The margin of error is 3.5 percentage points. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. If you have accounts on these bookmarking sites, you can post this story to share it with others.
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