It was no accident that Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s first appearance in Wisconsin this week was at the Kohl Center in the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
And even before Obama could get there, his rival, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, had already sent her daughter Chelsea on a two-day tour of college campuses around the state.
Both events drew big crowds of young people. More than 17,000 people, many of them students, filled the Kohl Center to hear Obama Tuesday night in the largest such pre-primary event in Wisconsin history.
Chelsea Clinton’s appearance, meanwhile, was a prelude to at least two more events focused on campus voters, including an appearance by Sen. Clinton herself on Monday and an event featuring former President Bill Clinton Thursday.