The tight race between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama has their campaigns looking even in the most-Republican corners of Indiana for votes in the days leading up to the state's primary next week.Former president Bill Clinton traveled Monday to the GOP stronghold of Carmel a day after visiting other Indiana communities that rarely favor Democrats. The Obama campaign is scouring similar territory for votes. Carmel High School students filled most of the seats in the school's gym to hear from Bill Clinton, with a few hundred members of the public joining them in the northern Indianapolis suburb.
The visit thrilled ardent Democrats from Hamilton County, which is the state's most affluent and fastest growing. "Believe me, we're lone wolves," Clinton supporter Sue Ann Blessing said. "Maybe there'll be some closet Democrats come out the woodwork with this primary election."