"Obama would be toast in any national election. All the opposing candidate would have to do is slip up a couple of times during a debate and call him Osama."
If that were the case, how did he get elected to the Senate over a rock ribbed conservative like Allan Keys and with 72% of the popular vote?
Keys carpet-bagged his way into the election and was viewed as an opportunist looking for an easy victory. Yes, he is conservative but in addition to the carpet-bagging problem, he had no voting base in Illinois and I'm sure his fire-brand conservativism turned alot of fence-sitters off. JMHO.