Crowds gather at opening of Obama campaign office in South Bend

By ED RONCO, Tribune Staff Writer

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Former WSBT-TV anchorman Mike Collins was one of hundreds to attend the opening of the new South Bend Barack Obama campaign headquarters

Former WSBT-TV anchorman Mike Collins was one of hundreds to attend the opening of the new Barack Obama campaign headquarters in South Bend Saturday morning, March 29, 2008. (Tribune Photo/GENE KAISER)

By Beth Boehne

Story Created: Mar 29, 2008 at 2:32 PM EST

Story Updated: Mar 29, 2008 at 5:43 PM EST

SOUTH BEND — Hundreds of volunteers packed into Sen. Barack Obama’s just-opened South Bend campaign office Saturday morning, eating doughnuts, greeting one another warmly and proclaiming their support for the White House hopeful.

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Among them, former WSBT-TV anchorman Mike Collins, who left the anchor chair last year.

Collins remembered being 15 years old, growing up in Pittsburgh and seeing John F. Kennedy campaign for president there in 1960.

"He made me care about the world," Collins said of Kennedy. "He made me care about equality."

Not since that time has Collins felt about a presidential candidate the way he does about Obama, he said.

"If Barack Obama wins Indiana, it’s over," Collins added, to cheers from the people in the room.

After the gathering, volunteers began canvassing, going door to door to register people to vote.

Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., are seeking their party’s nomination for president. Up for grabs in Indiana are 72 pledged convention delegates.

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