Jan 30, 2008 5:50 am US/Mountain
Party Leaders Hope Obama Visit Is Just The Start
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Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. (file)
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Democratic and Republican party leaders in Colorado hope the state will see more visits from the presidential candidates during the next week before the caucuses on Super Tuesday. Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton will be in Denver Wednesday.
President Bush will also be in the Denver area for a private fundraiser Thursday to help the campaign of Republican senate candidate Bob Schaffer.
Ahead of the political blitz, ministers who represent 79 churches in the Denver area decided to back Obama on Tuesday. State Senate President Peter Groff accepted the endorsement on Obama's behalf.
"This is movement in this country, a movement of change and hope that we are going to take not only through next Tuesday at the Caucuses but through November," said Groff.
Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb addressed whether Hillary Clinton herself will visit Denver before the big vote next week. Webb is a local Clinton supporter and a chairman of her national campaign.
"President Clinton will be attending a fundraiser, raising money for his wife's campaign and he'll be talking about solutions that America faces," he said.
John McCain's win of the Florida Primary Tuesday has set the stage for a more intense fight among the GOP candidates on Super Tuesday.
"I anticipate we will see one or more of the Republican candidates coming to Colorado between now and Tuesday," said Dick Wadhams, the state's Republican Chairman.
In the past, the Colorado caucuses were held in the third week of March when the nominees have historically already been decided.
"Clearly moving our caucus up to Feb. 5 has put us in the spotlight," said Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. "And for this to be the year that Denver is going to have one of the two major political conventions, I think it could've been Republican or Democrat."
With no clear frontrunner in either party, Colorado and the 23 other Super Tuesday states are even more crucial.
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