Excerpt from a Bob Dylan interview published in the UK today:

"“Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval,” he says. “Poverty is demoralising. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up...Barack Obama. He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to.” He offers a parting handshake. “You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future,” he notes as the door closes between us."

I read every Bob Dylan interview that comes out. I've read every one that's ever been published. This is about the most he's said about politics since 1963, and as close as he's ever come to endorsing a candidate before the election (he played at Clinton's inauguration and said kind words after Wellstone died, but that's been about it).