Barack Obama retains a solid lead in Wisconsin, but it is less overwhelming than a week ago. A new Strategic Vision poll of 800 Wisconsin voters has the Democrat at 50 percent and Republican John McCain at 41 percent.
….Members of the rock band WILCO are not coming to the UW-Madison campus this weekend for fun. Nationally, the Obama campaign is concerned that young voters are not rushing to the polls in the numbers they had expected. There are concerns that this could lead to exceptionally long lines at polling places on Tuesday.
So the campaign is making a major push to get students to vote early.