The Trail

-- Glenn Kessler

'TAKING NOTHING FOR GRANTED'

In Indiana, Michelle Obama Warns Against Complacency

FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Barack Obama may be leading in national polls, but his hard-driving campaign is not built for coasting, his wife, Michelle Obama, told a crowd in northern Indiana on Thursday. She urged them to keep pushing "because this isn't going to be easy."

"We are taking nothing for granted. Barack Obama will be the underdog until he is sitting in the White House," she told more than 2,000 supporters in one of the year's more surprising battleground states. Indiana hasn't supported a Democrat for president since 1964, yet it is currently rated a tossup.

Before jetting to New York for tonight's presidential debate, Michelle Obama made a pitch for early voting. She also summed the way the campaign has seen itself since last year's long march in Iowa, when the junior senator from Illinois was not a favorite to reach the Oval Office.

"We always act like the underdog, which means you have to work harder and smarter and clearer," she said. "Every hour, every day, every minute, every second between now and Election Day counts."

-- Peter Slevin

CONFIDENCE IN OHIO

Senator Relishes Idea of Fox Covering an Obama Victory

ATHENS, Ohio -- Sen. Sherrod Brown wants Ohio Democrats to watch Fox News on election night, so they can celebrate while watching conservatives in agony.