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To: Lane3 who wrote (34885)	3/16/2004 12:10:49 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793624

THE NOTE - NEWS SUMMARY Today, it's very likely that Sen. John Kerry will collect the 99 or so delegates he needs to put him over the top for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to both our ABC News delegate estimate and the campaign's own tally. Illinois, which votes today, will send 156 pledged delegates to the convention, and Kerry is expected to receive the lion's share. We'll be watching the Senate primaries there, too. They've been bruising by any standard, with details of messy divorces and personal allegations dripping out from both sides. Setting the pace at the moment in the Democratic field: State Sen. Barack Obama, endorsed by Bill Bradley and the League of Conservation Voters, among others. Obama is the son of a Kenyan father and a Kansan mother and, as the Washington Post noted, if elected he would be the Senate's only current black member and "'just the third'" since Reconstruction. His party competition includes state Comptroller Dan Hynes, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas, and investment banker Blair Hull. On the Republican side, teacher and former investment banker Jack Ryan currently looks the favorite against dairy company owner Jim Oberweis, paper company executive Andy McKenna Jr., and state Sen. Steve Rauschenberger, among others. In Washington, the Fed's aggressive monetary policy gets an internal once-over, at the FOMC meetings this morning. Which reminds us — with some seemingly positive hiring data out today — what will interest rates be like on election day? What will the housing market be like? Gas prices? The number of Americans without access to health insurance? In Colorado, will Dick Cheney find some new way to tease Sen. Kerry?