The wife of the Illinois senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama said she will not be attending the caucus, but instead taking her daughters to their ballet and soccer practices.
“We will wait for the caucus results and then we will move on to New Hampshire,” Obama said in a phone interview Friday. “I will be tied to my Blackberry on the bench waiting for the results.”
In accordance with a campaign that has ridden on a platform of grassroots activism, the senator’s wife encouraged Nevadans to attend the caucus.
“We are urging people to get out there and caucus,” Obama said. “They can’t sit out and just wait for things to change.”
The lessons she will take from Nevada are the same ones that Obama has learned through the course of the campaign.
“What we continue to learn is that people are hungry for change,” Obama said. “They are looking for someone with vision and that has been true regardless of the state.”
Barack Obama attended 11 events throughout the state in January, making two stops in Reno and three in Las Vegas. Throughout the course of his campaign Obama has hosted 30 events in Nevada, second only to the 74 events he has hosted so far in New Hampshire.
He has raised $72,777 from Nevadans since April 2007 and has received the most money from Californians raising more than $4.2 million.
“We never know what the outcome will be but I am proud of the way he has run the campaign,” Michelle Obama said.

