FROM THE ARTICLE:
About a month before the vote, The Chicago Tribune revealed, near the bottom of a long profile of Hull, that during a divorce proceeding, Hulls second wife filed for an order of protection. In the following few days, the matter erupted into a full-fledged scandal that ended up destroying the Hull campaign and handing Obama an easy primary victory. The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had worked aggressively behind the scenes to push the story. But there are those in Chicago who believe that Axelrod had an even more significant role that he leaked the initial story.
Save it before it disappears. It is the NY Times you know.
So Obama did it twice in Chicago?
Hmm...