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ALASKA DIRTY POLITICS? DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN? Sen. Barack Obama showed he was willing to use bare-knuckle tactics during his first race in Chicago.In his first race for office, seeking a state Senate seat on Chicago's gritty South Side in 1996, Obama effectively used election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition. As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers. https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/