SEYMOUR, Ind. (AP) — Bill Clinton's third campaign swing through Indiana in three weeks brought out stalwart supporters of his wife, along with many people interested in seeing the former president in their small town.

Clinton made a four-stop trip Wednesday in a pocket of southern Indiana where the race between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama for delegates in the state's May 6 primary almost takes a back seat to seeing a bit of hometown history.

The trips, though, are aimed squarely at voters like Jay Clark, a 41-year-old Seymour factory worker who never voted for Bill Clinton in his presidential runs.

"I just wanted to be able to tell my boy I saw a president," he said. But he also said he would probably vote for Hillary Clinton after hearing Bill Clinton's hour-long speech.

"I respect him for taking the time to come to a small town," Clark said. "They mean business. They are trying to win an election."

Clinton's trip came the same day former Rep. Lee Hamilton, a popular figure who represented the area in Congress for more than three decades, endorsed Obama.

Obama's campaign also had its own advocates in the state as actor Jeremy Piven, of the HBO series "Entourage," talked up the Illinois senator at Indiana University's Indiana Memorial Union hours before Bill Clinton spoke at IU's Assembly Hall after a stop in Bedford.

Obama is scheduled to make a campaign visit to Muncie on Friday, while supporter Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, will visit Fishers and Indianapolis on Friday and South Bend on Saturday. Singer Dave Matthews is to perform at an Obama event at IU on Sunday.

About a thousand people packed a Columbus fire station for Clinton's first stop Wednesday morning, with several hundred more watching through the glass doors to see him. Three bus loads of students from Columbus East High School showed up there, and dozens of students were in the crowd for his next stop at Seymour High School.

Katie Keily, an 18-year-old senior at Seymour's Trinity Lutheran High School, attended Clinton's speech with some friends, even though she's not inclined to vote for Hillary Clinton.

"It's a great opportunity to see the president, but I don't know that it will necessarily change my decision on Obama," she said.

Veronica Miller and her husband, Bill, had their choice of Bill Clinton events to attend as his stops in Seymour and Columbus were both within a half-hour of their home. Veronica Miller, 70, wore a Hillary Clinton T-shirt and button for Bill Clinton's Seymour speech.

"I thought he was one of the greatest presidents we ever had and I think she'll do even better," she said. "I would have come down and camped out if I needed to to get in."

She didn't need to, even though Clinton spoke to more than a thousand people — which seems like a large crowd for a city of 18,000. But there was plenty of room around the back of the school's bleacherless auxiliary gymnasium, which was used rather than the 8,000-seat main gym located across the hallway.

The Clintons have already crossed much of the state with more than a month remaining before the Indiana primary, including stops all of its television markets. Hillary Clinton has visited nine cities over three days since March 20, while Bill Clinton has been in 11 cities on his three daylong trips since March 18.

But it might be while before Indiana voters become blase about the campaigning.

"You wouldn't think someone like this would come here," Dane Williams of Brownstown said before Clinton took the stage in Seymour. "The issues are important, but it's also that someone like him would come to a place like this."