Obama bus tour stops in Rice Lake - WQOW TV: Eau Claire, WI NEWS18 News, Weather, and Sports

Rice Lake (WQOW) - A national campaign makes a stop in western Wisconsin.

The Obama for America bus tour rolled through Rice Lake Thursday afternoon. His campaign says they knew Wisconsin was going to be a battleground state from the get-go, but it's become even more so since Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan was announced as Mitt Romney's running mate. But the president has yet to campaign in Wisconsin since February, heading to surrounding states like Iowa and Minnesota instead.

"I think we will expect to see the president here, the First Lady is in Wisconsin today, we're very excited to have her. I think that folks after June 5 are maybe a little weary, but now they understand we've got 75 days to go here, and it's time to get re-engaged, get motivated, and explain to folks the very clear differences between the Obama/Biden approach, and the Romney/Ryan approach, and we're going to win that argument," says Joe Zepecki, the Wisconsin Campaign Director for the Obama Campaign.

The bus tour will stop in Eau Claire Thursday night at six, for a house party on Grand Avenue with Tyne Daly, from the show "Cagney and Lacey", and State Representative Peter Barca.