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"You can see
it in the crowds. The thrill, the hope. How they surge toward him.
You’re looking at an American political phenomenon. In state after
state, in the furious final days of this crucial campaign, Illinois
Senator Barack Obama has been the Democrats’ not-so-secret
get-out-the-vote weapon. He inspires the party faithful, and many
others, like no one else on the scene today...And the question you can
sense on everyone’s mind, as they listen so intently to him, is he the
one? Is Barack Obama the man, the black man, who could lead the
Democrats back to the White House and maybe even unite the
country?...Every-where he goes, people want him to run for President,
especially in Iowa, cradle of presidential contenders. Around here,
they’re even naming babies after him."
— Co-anchor Terry Moran on ABC’s Nightline, Nov. 6.
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"You know you
are the equivalent of a rock star in politics....Many people, afterwards
[after Obama’s 2004 Democratic convention speech], they weren’t sure how
to pronounce your name, but they were moved by you. People were crying.
You tapped into something. You touched people. What did you tap into
that, that was missing?...If your party says to you, ‘We need you,’ and,
and there’s already a drumbeat out there, will you respond?"
— NBC’s Meredith Vieira to Obama on Today, October 19.
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"For the first
time in the 218-year history of the Congress, a woman was voted by her
colleagues to be Speaker of the House. Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from
California, took the gavel. But in a picture perhaps even more symbolic,
the new Speaker was on the floor for a time, holding her 6-year-old
[really 6-month-old] grandson, all the while giving directions on how
events were to proceed. It seemed the ultimate in multitasking: Taking
care of the children, and the country."
— ABC World News anchor Charles Gibson, Jan. 4, 2007.
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