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Obama seeks to downplay great expectations.
Byline: David Mendell
CHICAGO _An exhausted Barack Obama, who worked overtime to fan the flames of celebrity in his Democratic U.S. Senate campaign, spent his first day as Senator-elect Wednesday struggling to downplay his political star power and the great expectations that flow from it.
Obama has not yet served a single day in the Senate. But he is already the focus of intense speculation about presidential aspirations thanks to a blowout victory Tuesday over Republican Alan Keyes that will make Obama the Senate's only African-American member.
On Wednesday, Obama declared flatly that he would not run on a national party ticket in 2008 _ and he lectured reporters to stop asking him about it.
Instead, the 43-year-old Democrat stressed repeatedly that his only goals as a freshman senator would be to deliver a better standard of living for the voters of Illinois and figure out how to navigate the Capitol.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Obama seeks to downplay great expectations.