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Rising political star Obama makes campaign stop at MC
Release Date: August 3, 2004
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Barack Obama |
MONMOUTH, Ill. — Monmouth College has been host to
several notable political figures over the years, including President
Reagan and the first President Bush. The latest politician to visit,
however, was virtually unknown outside of Illinois until his recent
appearance at the Democratic National Convention catapulted him to the
national spotlight.
Democratic senatorial candidate Barack Obama,
spoke July 31 at Monmouth College to an audience so large that the event
had to be moved at the last minute from the Morgan Room to Dahl Chapel.
In addition to hundreds of Democrats, a number of Republican and
independent voters also showed up to hear the man who delivered the
keynote address at the Democratic convention and who is considered a
rising young star in the Democratic party.
Currently a state senator from Chicago who also
lectures at the University of Chicago Law School, Obama was accompanied
on the campaign visit by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, Congressman Lane
Evans and State Senator John Sullivan.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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