It may now be endangered by a re-election race that many seasoned political figures say will be anything but easy.
He spent $748m to win the White House in 2008 and has already been sounding out big donors across the country for his re-election race.
Most prosecutors' re-election races around the country hardly register with voters.
In some ways, her re-election race is all about risk.
Critics said it was a move to rally conservative voters for his re-election race.
"She has a re-election race coming up in '97," he said.
It was the closest re-election race of Senator Kennedy's career.
He has $6.8 million so far for his 1998 re-election race, $4 million more than any other senator.
During his current term, he often responded to questions about a 1990 re-election race by saying he would run barring serious health problems.
Mr. Eve said his decision had "absolutely nothing" to do with the prospect of a tough re-election race.