President Barack Obama rolled into Madison, Wisconsin, on a crisp fall afternoon to rally his base for the upcoming midterm election. He spoke on the stairs of U.W.-Madison’s Memorial Library to an energetic crowd of 26,500 people. I don’t know about you, but I’m fired up,” he said when he took the stage to a roar of applause. Obama was noticeably looser in his speech than in previous visits during the presidential campaign. Casually dressed in a light blue dress shirt with rolled sleeves and no tie, the President warmed up the audience with tales of his youth.
When he was a young man living in Chicago, he would occasionally drive up north to visit friends who went to school here. “I had some fun times here in Madison,” he said, adding with a chuckle, “I can’t give you all the details.” Read more here:
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