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Stevie Wonder “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” for Obama
Music legend Stevie Wonder’s song “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” has been a staple at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s rallies ever since the presidential campaign began.
But on the eve of Indiana’s presidential primary, it wasn’t just a recording of the song being played at an Obama rally. Stevie Wonder himself performed it at a get-out-the-vote rally in downtown Indianapolis that drew 21,000 people.
It wasn’t the first time the Obama campaign has used superstar musicians to draw attention away from rival Hillary Clinton. Earlier in the campaign, when Bill Clinton was speaking in Bloomington, Obama campaign aides craftily drew listeners away by offering free tickets to a Dave Matthews concert.
Wonder and Matthews are supporting Obama, but it’s not at all clear who rocker John Mellencamp, an Indiana native, is supporting. Earlier, he appeared at an Obama rally, but most recently at a Clinton rally.
But as the well-known chorus of Mellencamp’s “Pink Houses” hit song begins, “Ain’t that America,” pretty much divided right down the middle in this protracted campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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