Democrats giddy over Obama visit

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Obama is stopping in Rock Hill on his way to Atlanta, where he will headline an afternoon rally at the Georgia World Congress Center.

Neither of the other leading Democratic hopefuls -- Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina -- have visited Rock Hill yet, though party members said they expect both to show up well before the state's Jan. 29 primary.

In fact, Clinton is expected to open a local headquarters in the next few weeks. Obama has already done that; his campaign office on Ebenezer Road houses regional field director Doug Wilson.

Obama last came to South Carolina in late August, when he visited J.V. Martin Junior High School in Dillon and held a rally in Conway. His wife, Michelle Obama, visited Anderson on Monday.

Freedom's Family Life Center can hold 1,000 people, and tickets are expected to run out by Wednesday morning, said executive director Willie Lyles III. Another 500 can watch from overflow seating in the auditorium.

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