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Enlisting New Donors, Obama Reaped $32 Million in January
New York Times - United States                                                                                                                                                                  By LESLIE WAYNE and JEFF ZELENY As he was winning contests in Iowa and South Carolina, Senator Barack Obama raised $32 million in January for his presidential bid, tapping 170,000 new contributors to rake in nearly double the highest previous one-month total for any candidate in this election cycle. This extraordinary influx of cash comes at a critical time, and is helping to fuel the Obama campaign’s nationwide advertising blitz and get-out-the-vote effort as it competes in the 22 states holding nominating contests on Tuesday, including expensive ones like California and New York.

Clinton, Obama Play Nice                                                                                                                                                                   Chicago Tribune - United States
LOS ANGELES—In their first presidential debate since the Democratic field narrowed to two, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton put on courtly airs Thursday night in a discussion polite enough for the average cocktail party. They carefully framed their disagreements as small in comparison to their differences with Republicans. Each used some variation of the phrase "I agree" more than once.

Middle America warms to Barack Obama
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Sarah-Jane, a 21-year-old computer science undergraduate at the local university, declared that Barack Obama was the superstar of the American presidential election campaign, and the only candidate capable of pulling in the big crowds. "He's the guy everybody wants to see. He's the guy who really speaks our kind of language, and he's the guy we want to see in the White House next year," she said.

How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?                                                                                                                                  Salon - USA
Barack Obama Feb. 1, 2008 | CHICAGO -- During his rise through Illinois politics, it was inevitable that Barack Obama would encounter a suckerfish like Tony Rezko. Illinois has more governmental bodies than any other state -- over 500 in Cook County alone -- and therefore, more opportunities for operators. Usually, their antics fill the front pages of only the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times. But thanks to an accusation by Hillary Clinton  who called him a “slum landlord,” Tony Rezko's alleged crookedness is national news.

In his own words: Bill Clinton on Barack Obama and Jesse Jackson
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Barack Obama, and apparently in the votes of thousands of South Carolinians. There was considerable criticism of for injecting race into the into the race, which Obama easily won 2 to 1. But now some of Clinton's supporters are suggesting he was not seeking to marginalize Obama as an old-fashioned hopeless black candidate, but that it was actually reporters who injected race and the Rev. Jesse Jackson into Clinton's post-election analysis.