Obama makes case for `common ground’
Less than a week after the Democratic Party suffered major electoral losses across the nation, it was Barack Obama, a U.S. senator-elect who has never held national office, who appeared...
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Keyes presses Catholic voters
Illinois' U.S. Senate candidates spent much of Halloween at churches Sunday, but Republican Alan Keyes was the one who openly mixed his faith with politics as he declared that any...
Hopefuls making last dash for votes
Some top Illinois Republican candidates turned to special intervention--both human and divine--to save their troubled campaigns in the final weekend before Tuesday's vote. Alan Keyes, the controversial GOP Senate candidate...
Senate debate gets personal
Battling a critical baseball playoff game as much as themselves, U.S. Senate candidates Barack Obama and Alan Keyes on Thursday attacked each other's notion of morality, Christianity and even the...
Obama spreads his influence
In a sign of the ever-expanding political influence of Democrat Barack Obama and the weakening position of veteran U.S. Rep. Philip Crane, Obama is dispatching a bulk of his volunteer...
Keyes riles state leaders with remark
Senate candidate Alan Keyes stridently defended his statements about the vice president's gay daughter Wednesday even as Illinois Republican leaders expressed reactions ranging from dismay to disgust. Keyes told a...
Keyes has plan for reparations
One day after their first meeting, U.S. Senate hopefuls Barack Obama and Alan Keyes were back on the campaign trail again Monday. Speaking at a news conference at the Hotel...
Keyes sets up house in Cal City
With the unloading of a bed frame, box spring and mattress from a rented Budget truck, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes moved into the second-floor apartment of a Calumet...
Keyes guarantees fight, if not victory
Maryland conservative Alan Keyes formally accepted Illinois' Republican U.S. Senate nomination Sunday, saying he believed he was duty-bound to protect the moral principles upon which the nation was founded and...
GOP wants Keyes
Illinois Republican leaders late Wednesday asked conservative talk-show host Alan Keyes to be their candidate for the U.S. Senate, but Keyes said that he would take until Sunday to decide...