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October 18, 2009

Surprise Hurdle for Illinois Senate Front-Runner

Washington Post, Washington Post

CHICAGO, Oct. 17 -- Alexi Giannoulias set out to make himself the inevitable Democratic nominee for President Obama's old Senate seat. But resistance from an unexpected quarter has slowed him down.

Giannoulias is young, engaging, handsome and rich. He played professional basketball in Greece and traded jump shots with Obama on the courts of Chicago. When he ran successfully for Illinois treasurer in 2006 at age 30, the future president called him "one of the most outstanding young men I could ever hope to meet."

All to the good, but this is Illinois politics, where the unpredictable seems normal. It was here that a little-known state senator, an outsider, came from behind to win the 2004 Senate primary, and it was this state's second-term governor who was led away...

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