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Michelle Obama at a rally in Keene: Photo Credit: PolitickerNH.com

KEENE--Michelle Obama told college students that Barack Obama's biography will result in a president who "gets it" and relates to middle-class families.

"Don't we deserve policies that reflect reality, don't we deserve a leader that gets it," Michelle Obama said a rally for college students at Keene State College.

Michelle Obama will visit the Granite State this Wednesday.

Obama is scheduled to hold a "Change We Need" rally at Keene State College. 

DENVER -- Karen Harris and Jill Duson, Maine delegates who are working on Barack Obama campaign, said the state can expect a high profile visit soon.

It is unlikely that Barack Obama will come back to Maine, Harris told the Maine delegates Thursday, but they have heard that either Michelle Obama or Joe Biden will visit the state in September.

The local party and campaign leaders need to make the arrangements and raise the money, Harris said, then they will be notified two weeks before the visit.

Maine House Speaker Glenn Cummings told PolitickerME last Saturday that Biden was planning a visit to the state.

Attorney General Doug Gansler (D)DENVER - Attorney General Doug Gansler believes Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton’s speeches at the Democratic National Convention may have puts some doubts to rest.

“Together they went a long way to bridging the gap for some women who had lingering concerns,” he said “I think Michelle Obama put that to rest on the first night of the convention and Hillary Clinton really took it the rest of the way by saying ‘look this isn’t about me. It’s about what we’re trying to do here.’”

Gansler said Clinton’s address was the “best speech I’ve ever seen her deliver.”

DENVER – U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) returned to her Maryland roots Wednesday morning, calling herself the “first woman, first Marylander” Speaker of the House.

Pelosi made the remarks during a Maryland delegation reception hosted by Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon at the Renaissance Denver Hotel.

Pelosi grew up in Baltimore and her father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., was a 5-term member of Congress and legendary mayor. Her brother, Thomas III, also served as Baltimore's mayor.

DENVER - U.S. Sen. John Kerry, the last Democrat to accept a presidential nomination, and his wife, Theresa Heinz, sat down with PolitickerMA.com to reflect upon their experience in 2004 and talk about what this year's nominee, Barack Obama, can expect. Kerry said the convention went by so quickly, he didn't have a moment to reflect on the significance of the event.  "Well, I wish there was time for a kind of introspection; that would be very sweet and enjoyable," Kerry said. "But frankly, you're so focused, and so it's so much a part of the continuum that you don't have time for that kind of introspection. You just don't."

DENVER - With a night under their belts to soak it in, many of the Washington state delegates were still soaking in the program from the convention Monday night. Kristine' Reeves, an Obama delegate and the Spokane County Democratic Party Chair, found the slate led by Michelle Obama and Sen. Ted Kennedy to be particularly emotional and profound.

"I think they were moving," Reeves told PolitickerWA.com." They were inspirational and awe-inspring and, regardless of what FOX News will tell you, they were motivational in a lot of ways."

DENVER - A radiant Michelle Obama took an already whipped up capacity-plus crowd of mostly women at the Sheraton Denver over the top during a speech Tuesday.

Speaking to an exuberant audience attending the Emily's List gala, the spouse of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama continued the process which she started during what has quickly become an acclaimed speech Monday night at Pepsi Center. Pundits most of Tuesday talking about the speech and effective it was in introducing her and her values to a wider national TV audience.

South Ward Councilman Oscar James II (center) confers with Booker staffers Terrance Bankston and Bari Mattes.: Politicker photo 

DENVER - A core member of the Booker Team, South Ward Councilman Oscar James II exulted in the speech delivered last night by Michelle Obama, even as he noted the persistent gloom of some Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) supporters in the New Jersey delegation.

"It makes me a little nervous because we have to be united," said James.

Widely hailed as a homerun by the New Jersey delegation, the speech by the wife of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee did not go too heavy on family values to the detriment of hard, urban issues, in James’s view.

DENVER -- Gov. Janet Napolitano participated in an economic forum Tuesday alongside potential first lady Michelle Obama.

The forum, called "All Boats Rising: Transforming the American Economy," was hosted by the AFL-CIO and the American Prospect. The discussion centered on how to create new broad-based economic opportunity across the demographic spectrum.