Will Obama Run in 2008?

In recent weeks, "Washington chatter" about Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "eyeing the presidential race has increased," the Chicago Tribune reports. "Leading Senate Democrats and party activists have privately urged him to consider a campaign, or at the very least, to leave the door open for a possible last-minute entry."

In fact, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is openly urging Obama to run, according to the AP.

Adding to the buzz, The Fix notes Obama "has brought on two nationally known Democratic consultants as advisers in recent weeks."

Joe Klein: "Close friends of Obama's say he really doesn't know yet what he's going to do in 2008. It would be nice if we statesmen of the media gave him the room to think it through -- but, of course, we won't. Washington is buzzing with the possibility of an Obama candidacy; he is about to be seriously pestered for a definitive answer."

Klein also notes that Obama's forthcoming book, The Audacity of Hope, will do little to stop the speculation.

May 30, 2006 | Related News





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