Police: Crowd for Obama Denver rally tops 100,000

[struggle4progress]

Associated Press - October 26, 2008 3:13 PM ET

DENVER (AP) - Police estimate the crowd for a rally by Sen. Barack Obama at well over 100,000.

Police spokesman Sonny Jackson says the crowd Sunday spilled out of Civic Center Park to the State Capitol and onto surrounding streets as Obama visited Colorado nine days before the election ...

http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=9240840

[Blaze Diem]

1. Beautiful.

bye haters.

[onecent]

2. I hope someone has some great pictures!! This is wonderful.n/t

[Elle1993]

4. Will upload some of mine later tonight

[Elle1993]

5. Will upload some of mine later tonight

[struggle4progress]

6. check the greatest page

[book_worm]

3. by comparison when McCain was in Denver on Friday he got 4,000

[Cha]

7. Thanks, SFP..On to

Fort Collins, ColoradObama!

"After the rally Denver, Obama's heading to Fort Collins, where he will hold another rally on the oval on the Colorado State University campus."

Wonder how that did?

[spanone]

8. the feller on the nbc news broadcast said obama had 50,000 at colorado state!

[Cha]

10. Pretty amazing..that use to

be considered more repub territory..out there in the country. Although it's been a long time since I've been back in ColoradObama.

[FrenchieCat]

9. Read he did 45,000 there!

:)

[Cha]

11. Thanks Frenchie..brilliant of the Obama

campaign to hit two diverse ColoradObama spots in one day.

[FrenchieCat]

13. Here's more info on that Fort Colins Early Vote rally!

4:49 p.m. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, speaking to a young crowd of about 45,250 at Colorado State University, urged them to vote early, to keep the faith and promised to find ways to help with tuition if they were willing to serve their country.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/oct/26/obama-pushes-early-voting-theme-45000-fort-collins/

[Cha]

16. Thanks, Frenchie..

Strictly Awesome.

[Bryan]

14. The Fort Collins rally was ENORMOUS

The police put attendance at 45-50,000 (I know a goodly number were bused in, but that is still an impressive turnout in a town of 130,000).

http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081026/NEWS03/81026030

My friends and I queued up at 11:00, and only just got in at the scheduled start time of 3:30. The campaign had completely given up on the cursory security checkpoint in favor of letting the crowd through, and people were running down the street to join the crowd (I cooled it after one volunteer helpfully yelled out that the Secret Service weren't too pleased to see the crowd running). It was shoulder-to-shoulder on the Oval and Obama was a faint speck in the distance.

[Cha]

17. I know the Excitement was there!

Thanks for the first hand report, Bryan!~

[zane25]

12. A good day in Denver.

I was at the rally today. There were alot more than 100,000 people that showed up. I have some pics but I can not upload them. It was a really good and positive gathering. We waited for 2 hours in line to get through security and never heard a single complaint. A great day for democracy.

[Doctor_J]

15. Hopefully all of these people, and all of US, will show up

in DC if the election is stolen.

[NOLALady]

18. Not just DC.

If necessary, they should converge at the state capitols across the nation.

[BrklynLiberal]

19. Wow! That is fantastic!!! Cannot wait to see pics!!