sentences:  Preckwinkle's views on Obama were prominently featured in a July 2008 "New Yorker" cover story on Barack Obama's political origins.The article begins by recounting a 1995 meeting between Preckwinkle and Obama in which he discussed a possible run for the Illinois Senate seat then held by Alice Palmer.According to the "New Yorker", Preckwinkle "soon became an Obama loyalist, and she stuck with him in a State Senate campaign that strained or ruptured many friendships but was ultimately successful."