Don't discount the possibility:
"The only other universally adored person coming to Iowa this December is Santa," Obama's Iowa press secretary Tommy Vietor told The Associated Press. Field assistant Prianka Sharma, 22, spent the week distributing blue priority tickets and white general admission tickets.
"Everyone who comes in will get a ticket -- the number will just depend on their involvement with the campaign," she said.
"Even if they are supporting other campaigns, we'll give them one."
The media mogul will also lend her star power to events in Columbia, S.C. and Manchester, N.H. on Sunday.
The South Carolina event was moved to an 80,000-seat university stadium after the original 18,000 tickets offered were snatched up quickly.
Obama adviser Steve Hildebrand said two-thirds of the first-batch tickets went to voters who had never been identified by the campaign before.
Hillary Clinton still leads the national polls by a good margin. But if Obama can pull off wins in both Iowa and New Hampshire ... you never know. Don't ever underestimate the power of momentum.
It would go down as one of modern politics' great ironies if Oprah Winfrey were to be responsible for dashing the chances of having the first U.S. woman president.
