1. Barack Obama is the first Illinois based President since Lincoln. Interestingly Ronald Reagan was Illinois born while Lincoln was born in Kentucky.
2. Last 4 Presidents to become Senators: Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy and Truman.
3. New Senators will be appointed in place of Obama and Biden. Obama was preceded by Peter Fitzgerald. Others to hold his Senate seat include: Carol Mosely Braun, and Everett Dirksen. Biden was preceded by J. Caleb Boggs. His Senate seat was previously held by: Daniel Rodney and Coleman Dupont.
4. Obama won Massachusetts home of John Kerry, lost Tenesee and Arkansas home states of Gore and Clinton, also lost Georgia Jimmmy Carters home state. South Dakota home of 1972 candidate George Mcgovern also went Republican.
5. Obama volunteers made 1,053,791 get out the vote calls on election day. This equates to 1.6 percent of his total votes.
6. Obama wore a Chicago White Sox cap on his 1st day as President-elect.
7. Obama's undergraduate degree is from Columbia. Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt studied law there. Obama has a Harvard law degree.
8. Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod was a Chicago Tribune reporter. Losing VP candidate Sarah Palin was a journalis major.
9. Once again the better military record lost. Since 1992 George Bush WW II pilot, Bob Dole WW II soldier, 2000 Al Gore Vietnam Veteran, 2004 John Kerry decorated Vietnam veteran and now Joh McCain Vietnam prisoner of war have lost presidential elections. Obama was 14 when Vietnam ended.
10. Obama was born in 1961. Other '61ers include: Rae Down Chong, Scott Baio, Wayne Gretzky and Amy Sedaris.
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