Obama got start in politics by knocking rivals off the ballot

The Internet never forgets. Via the Wayback Machine, an April 4, 2007 article in the Chicago Tribune details how Obama in 1996 successfully got all of his opponents for an Illinois state Senate seat removed from the ballot.
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