Wow, ya think Barack will win big in Oregon?
Some 75,000 people have turned out to see Barack Obama speak along the Portland waterfront, a record for the campaign.
The crowd covers the lawn here at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, from the streetside entry gates down to the Willamette River. Portland fire officials estimate 60,000 people are packed inside the park proper and another 10-15,000 are watching outside the gates. Spectators are lining the bridge behind Obama and watching, bikini-clad, from boats on the river.
... The biggest applause came when he denounced the Iraq war; Oregon is a hotbed of anti-war activism.
At one point, someone in the crowd shouted an expression of love at Obama. He broke his speech for a moment: "I love you too," he said.
"If you vote for me on Tuesday," he "We won't just win Oregon. We'll win this nomination, we'll win this general election. And you and I together, we'll change this country, we'll change the world."
That's more than twice the size of the last largest crowd, 35,000, in Philadelphia. Could you imagine McCain getting these kinda crowds?
Update [2008-5-18 19:36:7 by John Campanelli]: The Washington Post titled their article about the crowd as such:
Record Obama Crowd, the Size of a City
Sorta puts things in context, no?