Obama fails to draw student attention away from 172

Politico has a report today profiling U of C student's reactions to Obama sightings in Hyde Park, in particular the brief flashes of the president-elect as he enters and exits the Regents Park apartment complex, on South Lake Shore Drive, where he works out every morning.

John McCain called him "the biggest celebrity in the world," but Barack Obama's appearance outside the Regents Park Luxury Apartments on a freezing-cold Thursday morning didn't move a half-dozen University of Chicago students waiting on a salt-and-snow layered sidewalk for the Chicago Transit Authority's 172 bus.

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