Obama Embraced by Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin - No votes have been counted in Wisconsin. But the race is over.

This was demonstrated most poignantly in Eau Claire, WI, where overflow audiences heard Obama address 1,000s Saturday, and where Hillary cancelled her appearance. (Pictured lining up Saturday Eau Claire, shot by rhubarb)

- http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/16/%20211551/696/364/458321

- http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2%20/16/22631/6970

A mother who lost her son serving in Iraq gave a bracelet to Obama at the Eau Claire event to remind him of the reality of voting for war, and he still wears it.

Madison and Milwaukee, and southeastern Wisconsin will vote for Obama, but Eau Claire and northern Wisconsin will send him to Ohio and Texas to lift him, and us, to victory.

Latest out of Obama's three offices in Madison is that 100s of field volunteers hit the entire City of Madison (and surrounding areas) Saturday in anticipation of a winter storm today dumping snow/sleet/freezing rain in most of Wisconsin.

I know the policy differences between the two are slight, but it does matter if you believe in a candidate.

I just don't believe in Hillary; I do believe in Obama.

Clinton Backing Away from Wisconsin, Obama Running Up the Score - Updated

Update II: Eau Claire, WI: Obama, talk of the town; Hillary Cancels

Update: On the ground, and on the air, Obama going for KO

In another sign that Hillary Clinton knows Wisconsin is going to Obama, Clinton is scaling back her campaign schedule here.

Writes Craig Gilbert:

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton has scaled back her Wisconsin campaign schedule by a full day, and is now planning to leave the state after Monday morning instead of Tuesday morning. The move suggests the campaign does not think it can overtake rival Barack Obama here.

... While the two have exchanged hard-hitting TV ads here, Obama began airing ads a week earlier and has spent much more on TV. Today is Clinton's first day of campaigning in the state, with an event in Kenosha and a state party dinner in Milwaukee, where Obama also will appear.

Clinton will campaign Sunday in De Pere, Wausau and Madison, and is expected to do one event in the state Monday morning before leaving.

Looking good for Obama. Latest out of Obama's three offices in Madison is that 100s of field volunteers are hitting the entire City of Madison today (Saturday), in anticipation of a winter storm Sunday expected to dump as much as a foot of snow (sleet and freezing rain) in southern Wisconsin.

And Obama is blasting the Milwaukee airwaves.

###