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On the Stump

Published: Thu, October 30, 2008, 11:10 PM

Ryan Philippe and Olivia Wilde campaign for Barack Obama in Missouri, at rallies in Kansas City, Kirksville and Columbia.

Bradley Cooper, who appeared in "Wedding Crashers," and Sarah Jane Morris of "Brothers and Sisters" will be out to drum up votes in Warrensburg and Joplin on Saturday and Springfield and Rolla on Sunday.

Tina Daunt of the Los Angeles Times writes that the campaigning will continue write up until election day.

She quotes Marge Tabankin: "None of us want to wake up the day after the election and see there was something we could have done that we didn't do."

Among the recent efforts, she writes, "Hollywood's "Bubbies for Obama," which included songwriters Marilyn and Alan Bergman and comic writer Gary David Goldberg -- went on a condo tour in the Sunshine State, reassuring older Jewish voters that Obama really does support Israel."

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