The boycott is over. Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will both be in Florida on Wednesday after avoiding the state since last fall.

Obama is seeking to mend fences in a key general election state snubbed by the Democratic National Committee. Clinton is continuing her push to have the state’s primary count and its delegates seated at the party’s national convention in Denver in August.

Both candidates signed a pledge nine months ago that kept them from campaigning here before the Jan. 29 primary. Other than a rally Clinton held after polls closed that night, neither candidate has campaigned here since the DNC stripped Florida of its delegates in September because its primary was held before Feb. 5.

DNC rules committee members may decide whether restore delegates to Florida _ as well as Michigan, which was also stripped of its delegates _ when they meet on May 31.

Obama, an Illinois senator, announced last week that he was coming to Florida, the largest of the swing states and a crucial battleground in November. Clinton, a New York senator, announced Monday that she would be in South Florida, but didn’t release details of her plans.

The fact that neither campaigned here for months created bitterness among the state’s Democrats.

“There are some hard feelings in the state, but I think the hard feelings are directed at either the Republican Legislature or, frankly, the FDP (Florida Democratic Party) and the DNC,” said Kirk Wagar, a Miami-based Obama fundraiser. “If there are some lingering hard feelings, I think they will, if not fade, they’ll diminish.”

Florida lawmakers and Republican Gov. Charlie Crist set the primary date in violation of both parties’ rules. Republicans lost half their delegates and Democrats were stripped of all. All major Democratic candidates refused to campaign here once the state party decided to stick with the early date.

Obama hasn’t campaigned here since August, when he held events in Tallahassee and Miami. His three-day swing will begin with a rally at a 20,000-seat hockey arena in Tampa.

Obama’s campaign has started moving staff to the state, with 10 field organizers joining the three-person finance team that Wagar has led, he said.

Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain campaigned in Florida on Tuesday, his third trip here since the state’s primary.