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Sen. Barack Obama had no campaign events scheduled for Monday. He is expected to return to the campaign trail in North Carolina on Wednesday.
KYW's Mike DeNardo reports Monday was the deadline for voters to register for Pennsylvania's April 22nd presidential primary.
The Obama and Clinton campaigns have staged intense registration drives, to sign up as many Pennsylvania Democrats as possible before Monday night's deadline. If you're a registered Republican or Independent and you want to have a say in the choice for Democratic nominee, you have to be a registered Democrat.
Zack Stalberg, who heads the election watchdog Committee of Seventy, says this year's voter registration deadline is attracting unprecedented interest:
"Once the city commissioners sort through it we'll see some very big numbers, I think, of people who have registered for the first time or have switched parties."
If you want to register or change registrations and a campaign worker hasn't already handed you a form, you can download one from the state website, www.votespa.com. And Stalberg recommends hand-delivering the form to your county election office.
KYW's Larry Kane says since last fall, The Democrats have picked up 100,000 new voters. The Obama campaign claims to have signed up most of them, but the Clinton campaign also looks at a windfall from this.
One factor: recent surveys have not accounted for new voters in Pa. Will registration tighten the race?
In the background, there are furious calls to superdelegates by both sides especially after Bill Richardson endorsed Obama over the weekend.
On the endorsement front: two locally big names are missing. Neither Senators Joe Biden of Delaware nor Bob Casey of Pa. has endorsed a candidate. There are less than 30 days until the Pa. primary.
KYW’s John McDevitt reports as Monday's deadline to register to vote in the Pennsylvania primary approached, volunteers for both of the Democratic candidates were out in force in the Philadelphia area this past weekend.
"Voter registration forms folks. Monday is the deadline."
Armed with a clip board Obama supporter Dave Lipshutz from Voorhees, New Jersey, was on the corner of 16th and Walnut Streets in Center City registering people to vote.
"I’ve been volunteering for four months. I’m from Jersey so I started back when the primary didn't turn out that great there. So I come over here and try to hit on a win here."
At Bryn Mawr College in Montgomery County about 100 Hillary Clinton supporters attended an event where actress America Ferrera who plays Betty on ABC's "Ugly Betty" appeared on a panel:
“We don't need to demand that things change we need to change things and that’s what I so admire in Hillary Clinton. It’s not just about her sitting around waiting for her to do her job."
Senator Clinton was slated to make what's billed as a major policy address at UPenn Monday morning and then make an appearance at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell.
Senator Obama campaigned Saturday in Oregon.
Republican Senator John McCain is back in the US after wrapping up his tour of the Middle East and Europe.
