I'm going to make a prediction: Barack Obama will turn out to be the biggest media-puffed-up paper tiger in the history of politics, at least as it goes outside of Illinois.
He will not win in an open Prez primary, and barring a Democratic tsunami that year, he will not be carried in as Veep.
The reason for Obama's "landslide" win was amazing luck with the ILGOP imploding and NOT because of anything special he did. If any other state had a Senate campaign where the GOP candidate was forced out of the race after a judge opened his divorce records, then the state party spent a month sitting on their hands "looking" for a replacement (and turning down all of the "also rans" in the primary), then the unopposed Dem candidate was rewarded with a prime time speaking spot at the DNC convention, then every prominent official in the state refused to run against him, and THEN they imported a candidate at the 11th hour from another state who kept shooting his mouth off, that Dem would have gotten about the same numbers Obama did.
Obama couldn't beat the likes of black panther Bobby Rush in the congressional primary two years earlier and I think he will wilt under national scrunity.