Ah! As a fellow Chicagoan, you can understand my initial shock at your original post. Yes, the media is certainly going to manufacture this election as best they can. I fully expect some sort of appearance of Obama on "American Idol" next season.
Did you hear Bobby Rush comment that Obama was "born to be president"? Emil Jones praised him in even more glowing terms. Maybe we should just skip the election and make him president by acclamation -- maybe for life -- as in the good old Chicago tradition.