Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterAfter Nearly 2 Years, Obama Machine Winds Down
Published 11/6/2008 by Shailagh Murray and Peter Slevin at Wash Post Elections
CHICAGO, Nov. 5 -- For 631 days starting in February 2007, Barack Obama had started each day with a campaign to wage, one that carried him from relative obscurity to the threshold of the Oval Office.
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