Home CHICAGO – NOVEMBER 2: Candidate for the U.S. Senate Barack Obama (D-IL) sits with his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha (L) and Malia (R) in a hotel room as they wait for election returns to come in November 2, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama is expected to win easily against the Republican candidate Alan Keyes. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) CHICAGO - NOVEMBER 2: Candidate for the U.S. Senate Barack Obama (D-IL) sits with his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha (L) and Malia (R) in a hotel room as they wait for election returns to come in November 2, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama is expected to win easily against the Republican candidate Alan Keyes. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

CHICAGO – NOVEMBER 2: Candidate for the U.S. Senate Barack Obama (D-IL) sits with his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha (L) and Malia (R) in a hotel room as they wait for election returns to come in November 2, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama is expected to win easily against the Republican candidate Alan Keyes. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES – 1981: Occidental College student and later Obama’s girlfriend Alex McNear, who debuted Obama’s poetry as co-founder of Feast magazine, poses for a portrait in 1981 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Tom Grauman/Corbis via Getty Images)

Newly-elected pres. of HARVARD LAW REVIEW, law student, & former community program dir. Barack Obama. (Photo by Steve Liss/Getty Images)