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I don’t want to be coy about this, given the responses that I’ve been getting over the last several months, I have thought about the possibility. But I have not thought […] about it with the seriousness and depth that I think is required. My main focus right now is in the ‘06 and making sure that we retake the Congress. […] after November 7, I’ll sit down […] and consider, and if at some point, I change my mind, I will make a public announcement and everybody will be able to go at me.[73]

In September 2006, Obama was the featured speaker at Iowa Senator Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry, a political event traditionally attended by presidential hopefuls in the lead-up to the Iowa caucus.[74] TIME magazine’s October 23, 2006 issue featured Obama on its cover beside the headline "Why Barack Obama Could Be The Next President."[75]

Commentators have suggested that Obama’s chances to be elected president would be better in 2008 than in 2012 or later. A December 2005 article published in The New Republic reasoned that, with no incumbent president or vice president in the race, 2008 offers Obama his best chance at winning the presidency.[76] In an October 2006 editorial published in the Chicago Tribune, Newton Minow compared prospects for a 2008 Obama presidential bid to John F. Kennedy’s successful 1960 presidential campaign.[77] An editorial published that same month in The Economist presented a similar opinion.[78]

During his first year in the Senate, Obama acquired several high profile supporters, including U.S. businessman and philanthropist Warren Buffett.[79] Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Illinois State Comptroller Daniel Hynes have both urged Obama to consider running in 2008.[80][81] Celebrity television show host Oprah Winfrey and film actor George Clooney also recently expressed their enthusiasm for Obama entering the 2008 presidential race.[82][83]

On October 27-29, 2006, the Opinion Research Corporation conducted interviews with 1,014 Americans. When asked the question: "Please tell me which of the following people you would be most likely to support for the Democratic nomination for President in the year 2008. New York Senator Hillary Clinton, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, former Vice President Al Gore, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson or Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold?", Barack Obama came in second place, with 17%. He trailed only Hillary Clinton, who garnered 28% of the responses.[2]

On November 8, Obama appeared on Larry King Live and was asked by King about his ambitions. Obama said that he would make his ambitions known in January but in a response to a question noted that "nothing in today’s election has discouraged me."

Controversy

On November 1, 2006 the Chicago Tribune reported that Obama’s home in the South Side neighborhood of Chicago was purchased the same day as an adjoining vacant lot owned by the wife of Antoin Rezko, an Illinois businessman charged with political influence peddling, and a past contributor to Obama’s election campaigns.[84] Two days after the report, the same newspaper ran an editorial calling on Obama to explain why he would "allow himself any connection" to a developer who "notoriously attaches himself to political figures, often parlaying friendships into business dealings that have attracted official suspicions for several years."[85] The following day the Chicago Tribune reported Obama’s statement that it was a mistake to have engaged "in this or any other personal business dealing that would allow [Rezko], or anyone else, to believe that he had done me a favor. For that reason, I consider this a mistake on my part and I regret it."[86]

Personal life

While working at a corporate law firm in the summer of 1989, Obama met Michelle Robinson, who was then an associate attorney at the firm. They married in 1992. The couple has two daughters, Malia (born 1999) and Sasha (born 2001). The Obamas are members of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ.[87][88] Of his religious affiliation, Obama has written:

I was drawn to the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change. […] In the history of these struggles, I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world. […] It was because of these newfound understandings–that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved–that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized. It came about as a choice and not an epiphany; the questions I had did not magically disappear. But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side of Chicago, I felt God’s spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth.[89]

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