By Brandon Brown
On the opening night of the five-night mock convention and election, the Union Grand Ballroom was where the Barack Obama campaign seemed to skyrocket.
The success of the Obama campaign -- he ended up with 1,180 votes, compared to Hillary Clinton's 311 and John Edwards' 302 -- may have been helped by a representative of Obama's official campaign team.
However, the Obama team was secretive about the outsider's identity.
For months, many WIU students seem to have taken an interest in Obama, and at Tuesday's Democratic session, it was evident that some interest translated into support.
For instance, Obama generated a 38-8 lead over Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses -- the only candidates to get votes there.
Obama's student campaign has been meeting for five weeks, according to campaigner Chris Mortimer, discussing strategies and issues. Then they got a representative of Obama's official campaign team.
However, the woman refused to identify herself and would not comment except to say she was in Macomb to support students because some of the campaign workers on campus were also interning on the real campaign.
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Obama wins the Georgia primary?
That's unpossible!!
When you think about it who had the best campaign going on, Obama did. That campaign went all out selling t-shirts, holding rallys, bake sales, etc... While it was highly unrealistic, the Obama campaign took their job seriously to spread hope and change.
You give the Obama campaign too much credibility in this article. The "unidentified" lady is Obama's local field organizer who came to watch. It least she was only on the sidelines. If you want a real story, you should talk to the Mitt Romney Campaign who doesn't have any but 1 student volunteer and the rest are real paid Romney Staff.
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