She came to the Show-Me-State to help sway the swing votes that have picked the president every year since 1956. Jerry and Connie Bartlett waited for hours to catch a glimpse, even though they have probably heard it all before.

"I don't know that she can tell us anything that we haven't already heard." Jerry Bartlett said, "But we just wanted to see her live and listen to her say it live to us."

When Obama took the stage, she talked about health care reform, and the economy, but mostly urged Missourians to register to vote. The deadline to register in missouri is Oct. 8.

In her address to the crowd Obama had this to say, "People in the purview of your influence, the folks in your own lives if you just reach out and talk to them and tell them that this time, it does matter, it always matters, but it matters so much in this election because there is so much at stake."

Obama mentioned one more topic that Bartlett said was close to his heart, "We also know there's only one candidate who's talking about a timetable for withdrawing our troops from Iraq responsibly. I was in Vietnam and saw what happens in a war and I don't think anybody wins in a war and I think it needs to come to an end - if just for no other reason than to save the lives it will save.".

There were more than 3,000 people at the rally in the Kansas City Jazz District Wednesday and Bartlett hopes Missouri picks his candidate this year.