Potential, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wasted no time trying to keep the good feeling going following his very successful visit to the state Sunday.

On Monday, he placed a well-directed call to one of those helping with the event and followed that up with other calls Tuesday.

Hey for a 45-year-old rookie, he’s not half bad.

The Washington Post’s excellent media critic, Howard Kurtz, nailed an analysis of the media’s treatment of Obama Mania. Here’s the link.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/12/12/BL2006121200358.html.

The Telegraph already reported Obama’s shadow throughout the visit with Matthew Rodriguez who worked on the presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley in 2000 and for Dick Gephardt in 2003-04.

The connection to Obama? Gephardt used Axelrod and Associates of Chicago and its principal, David Axelrod, is Obama’s political suami.