As the news came in that he scored resounding victories over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia Tuesday night, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama pumped up an overflow Madison crowd at the Kohl Center.
“This is our moment. This is our time,” Obama said to overwhelming applause during a 25-minute stump speech in front of more than 17,000 supporters in the arena and another 2,000 in the Kohl Center’s Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion. “And where better to affirm our ideals than here in Wisconsin, where a century ago the Progressive movement was born?”