Barack Obama and his chief political adviser David Axelrod took their brand of Chicago politics worldwide last night, stealing the spotlight from established candidates in the first test of the 2008 election. Following the victory in Iowa, the Chicago Sun-Times took the temperature on the ground back home — “South siders react to Obama’s win” — while the Chicago Tribune headed East to assess the “fired up” crowds in New Hampshire. (For more hometown coverage, the Chicago Reader has archived their stories about Obama, and independent voices like In These Times may continue to remain skeptical.)

On the national level, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post detects a “A Whiff of Revolution From Iowa,” Peggy Noonan declares “Out With the Old, In With the New” and Bill Bennet goes foot-in-mouth.