MADISON - The road to the white house runs through Wisconsin. One of the campaign's biggest names makes an early stop in the Badger State. The election may be more than a year away, but that isn't stopping candidates from stumping in key swing states. Illinois Democrat Barack Obama took his message to Madison Monday. The site where the rally occurred is actually the second choice for Monday’s rally. The theater on State Street where it was supposed to happen wasn't big enough for all of the people who wanted tickets. So, the campaign moved to the convention center. It was packed. It's very early in the race for the White House, but that's not stopping the thousands of people who came out to a carefully produced political event for Senator Barack Obama. “We can rise up and do something that hasn't been done in a very, very long time. And that is make the country all it can be,” Obama said. With blasting music and calculated camera angles, Obama talked about ending the Iraq war, and promised health care for all. “By the end of my very first term as president, we're going to make sure that every single American has the health care they need. And we can do it,” Obama said. The crowd was mostly students from UW-Madison. Two-thousand of them according to the Students For Obama. It was so crowded that three people passed out during the speech. “What? We've got another person. I'm just knocking them off their feet,” Obama said. Afterwards, not everyone was convinced Obama will win the Democratic nomination over other candidates like Senator Hilary Clinton. “I don't think it's a done deal. I think the most important thing is for the Democrats to take the white house so I would put my vote, my support behind the most viable candidate,” one person said. This event was also designed to recruit students to help with the campaign. People were given registration cards. There is a box on the cards for people who want to travel to Iowa to help the campaign at the Iowa caucuses, and Obama asked people to help recruit their friends.