SPOKANE -- Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama will be campaigning in Spokane on Friday.The Barack Obama campaign says that Michelle Obama will campaign for her husband in Spokane on Friday, and the Spokane County Democrats confirm that Bill Clinton will be in town the same day.As of noon Wednesday, no times or locations have been released for Michelle Obama or Bill Clinton's stops in Spokane. However, the Obama campaign did note that Michelle's appearance will be free and open to the public, and it is expected that Clinton's visit will be the same.The annoucement comes the day after Super Tuesday - the closest thing the U.S. has to a national primary - but one in which the democratic candidates still found themselves neck-and-neck after all the votes had been counted.
Obama claimed a "big victory" in Tuesday's voting after winning 13 states. However, Clinton took home the top two prizes - New York and California - leaving her with a slight overall delegate lead.
Partially due to the fact that the democratic party splits delegates proportionally within a state, neither candidate was able to garner enough votes on Super Tuesday to pull ahead of the other candidate by a statistically significant margin.
While Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama will be in Spokane Friday, the candidates themselves are also expected to visit Washington. Barack Obama has already announced a campaign stop in Seattle for the end of the week, and Hillary Clinton is expected to make a similar appearance.
Washington - often a political afterthought considering that the nomination can be all but sewn up with the results of Super Tuesday - suddenly finds itself as a key nomination state. Louisiana and Nebraska will also hold democratic candidate voting on Saturday, however Washington is expected to be the most aggressively courted as it has 97 delegates at stake, by far the most among the three states.
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