Dave Matthews Concert To Support Obama

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(INDIANAPOLIS) - Monday is the last day to register to vote for Indiana’s primary, and Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is setting its registration drive to music.

On Sunday, a day before the deadline, Dave Matthews and longtime collaborator Tim Reynolds will play a free concert in Bloomington at Indiana University's Assembly Hall on Obama's behalf.

Tickets were distributed at IU and Purdue -- and at Obama's campaign offices in Indy, Bloomington and Lafayette, with Obama volunteers strolling up and down the round-the-block line to offer voter registration forms.

The line of more than a thousand people in Indianapolis was dotted with new voters signing up. Most were like Taylor University students Kirstin Cornfield, Kelly Hagar and Luke Wynsma, who got up at 6:00am to drive to Indy. Once downtown, they huddled with blankets over their shoulders for two-and-a-half hours, waiting for ticket distribution to begin at 10.

Wynsma says he's definitely voting for Obama. Cornfield and Hagar, like many people in line, say they haven't decided yet -- the main draw for them isn't the Illinois senator, but Matthews.

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