In other campaign news, talk show host Oprah Winfrey campaigned with Senator Barack Obama in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina this weekend. On Sunday, nearly 30,000 people gathered to hear Winfrey and Obama speak in Columbia, South Carolina in what the Obama campaign described as the largest campaign event on the 2008 race. A day earlier, 18,000 people gathered in Iowa to see Senator Obama and Oprah Winfrey.

Oprah Winfrey: “Obama has fought for disability pay for veterans. He worked to boost the nonproliferation of deadly weapons. He advocated the use of alternative fuels to cure our national addiction to oil. He has spoken out against our government’s indifference to the poor and to political incompetence in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. And he has rallied against genocide in Darfur. And long before it was the popular thing to do, he stood with clarity and conviction against this war in Iraq.”