O would have won unopposed, believe it or not
That was the original intention, you better believe it.
Don't be silly. If Keyes had not said yes to the Illinois republican party when they asked him to run against Obama and generated such intense anti-republican sentiment in Illinois, then Obama would have lost the statewide Senate race while running unopposed. It was only the presence of Keyes in the race that enabled the Chicago political corruption machine to foist Obama on the American people.
I don't really need a sarcasm tag, do I?
As he plans to in 2012. Moving the census to the White House. Putting ACORN in charge of the census. Did Lenin or Stalin or Hitler run for re-election? Of course not.