Obama’s Chicago roots shape president-elect’s policies and viewpoints
CHICAGO — In recent elections, residents of the Hyde Park neighborhood of the South Side of Chicago could walk right into Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School to cast their votes. But on Tuesday morning, the line stretched around the block.
This was no ordinary election at Shoesmith Elementary. The Democratic candidate for president — the man who once represented this area as an Illinois state senator — was about to arrive to cast his own ballot.
And when Sen. Barack Obama pulled up at around 7:30 a.m., the small school-turned-polling station was saturated with voters,...
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