Obama's Chicago Blues

Key Quote:  "One of Obama's greatest coups in the campaign came in eschewing the habit of announcing a candidacy from one's hometown and instead doing it in the city where he built his political career -- Springfield, the downstate capital of Illinois, a landscape that suggested the placeless prairie moderation Obama has tried to make his defining characteristic in the campaign."

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2007/09/obamas_chicago.html