Obama comes back to the region

Here’s your Wednesday morning update on the road to the Pennsylvania Primary:

* 13 days until Pennsylvania goes to the polls on April 22. That’s exactly two weeks from yesterday.

Sen. Barack Obama will be back in the area today, and he’ll be buoyed by some new poll numbers that show he continues to cut into Sen. Hillary Clinton’s once gaping lead in the state.

Obama will be at Great Valley High School this morning for a town hall rally similar to the one he held last week at Strath Haven. He’ll do a double-header, with a similar event this afternoon at Truman High School in Levittown.

Clinton has no appearances in the state set today, but former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will do several events for Clinton, in Philly, and three different colleges, Kutztown, Lehigh and Bryn Mawr.

In the meantime, the latest Quinnipiac Poll shows Clinton’s lead now at just six points. She holds a 50-44 edge over the Illinois senator among state Democrats. That means he’s sliced 3 points off her lead since the last poll came out a week ago.

Another poll, the Rasmussen poll, has Clinton holding a 48-43 lead.

It’s going to be a very interesting two weeks.

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