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Ryan tops crowded GOP field
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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Tribune |
| News Date | Tuesday, March 16, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Political newcomer Jack Ryan rode his image as a conservative with a conscience to victory Tuesday, becoming the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate.
Ryan, 44, marched toward an easy victory over more than a half-dozen GOP challengers, setting up a match against Democrat Barack Obama in November that will likely be one of the most closely watched in the nation. Obama will be trying to become the Senate's only African-American.
"I've been talking about social justice issues and civil rights issues all across this state," Ryan told a crowd of about 500 supporters. "I've been going into the communities the Democrats think they own and to the voters they take for granted on the issues they think they own, on the themes they think they own."
With 91 percent of the state's precincts reporting, Republicans had given Ryan 36 percent of the vote; dairy owner Jim Oberweis was in second place with 23 percent; state Sen. Steve Rauschenberger had 20 percent; and Glenview businessman Andy McKenna Jr. had 15 percent. Several other candidates received nominal support. |
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