"Hello, Michigan. Hello, Ypsilanti -- glad to be here. I don't know how to spell it, though," Springsteen told the crowd at Oestrike Stadium on the campus of Eastern Michigan University.
The blue-collar set kicked off with "The Promised Land" and also included "The Ghost of Tom Joad," "Thunder Road, "Devils & Dust," "Used Car," "No Surrender," "The Rising" and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land."
Earlier in the show, Springsteen said: "I was on the campaign trail four years ago. This time we're winning." And before "The Rising," he made a long speech similar to those he delivered Saturday in Philadelphia and Sunday in Columbus, Ohio (the text is posted on his official Web site (http://www.brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html)).
Springsteen finished the show leading the crowd in a rhythmic chant of Obama's campaign slogan, "Yes we can."
He isn't finished with his Obama activism yet. On October 16, he will join Billy Joel and John Legend for a fund-raiser on behalf of the candidate at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
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