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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I find this very surprsing, I'm not sure what to make of this, with the 
economic Halloween that is happening.  If he can't carry Wisconsin, then I've 
read this entire election wrong.  Wisconsin should be in first line of dance 
partners.  Watch for cauldrens and black cats....bobf
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From Today's Chicago Sun-Times
 
Uncharacteristically low turnout for Barack Obama rally in Green Bay, Wisc. 
 
 
McCain/Palin drew 4,000 more supporters at same venue a week ago 
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September 23, 2008

BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Staff Reporter 
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Hoping to shore up support in his suddenly undependable 
backyard, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama flew here Monday to 
talk about how he’d handle economic crises as president.
Recent polls have shown that Wisconsin — once pretty solidly in Obama’s 
column — is now a statistical dead heat between Obama and Republican John 
McCain.
 
“You all know that you hold this election in your hands,” Sen. Russ Feingold, 
a Democrat who said he worked on ethics legislation with Obama, told a crowd 
of about 6,000 cheering Obama fans in the arena next to Lambeau Field. “We 
just barely won this state for Al Gore in 2000 and we just barely won this 
state for John Kerry in 2004.”
 
The numbers in Wisconsin and Minnesota are getting close enough that the 
Obama campaign closed its 11 campaign offices in North Dakota and moved the 
50 staffers there to these two states.
Just a week ago, John McCain and his vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin — 
who can bring out crowds the way Obama can — appeared in this same stadium, 
Resch Center, to a crowd of 10,000 fans. There were an uncharacteristic 
amount of empty orange seats for Obama’s rally.