Obama draws 100,000 in St. Louis

[KBevangelist]

http://obsprimary.blogspot.com/2008/10/ ... louis.html

A crowd of 100,000 - the largest U.S. crowd of the campaign - gathered to hear Barack Obama near the St. Louis Arch today.



"What a magnificent sight. All I can say is, 'wow!'" Obama said to the crowd, estimated at 90,000 by a St. Louis police spokesman, who said 10,000 more were filing into the rally.



Missouri, like North Carolina, has become a fiercely fought battleground state. Today, while McCain was in Concord and later Virginia, Obama talked taxes in St. Louis.

Said Obama: "Lately, Senator McCain has been attacking my middle class tax cut. He actually said it goes to, “those who don't pay taxes,” even though it only goes to working people who are already getting taxed on their paycheck. That's right, Missouri – John McCain is so out of touch with the struggles you are facing that he must be the first politician in history to call a tax cut for working people 'welfare.'"

In late August, Obama drew 84,000 when he accepted the Democratic nomination for president in Denver. In May, he drew 75,000 to an outdoor rally in Portland. Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin also has drawn large crowds, including an estimated 60,000 at rally in Florida last month.

KB

[Pianoman]

Ehhh - I think that was just folks that were coming in
early for the Apple Butter Festival next weekend:

http://www.visitkimmswick.com/festivals

Word to the wise - always watch the news to see
what's going on in a city before you plan a day
trip to visit it!

Didn't get the Obama memo & had planned a trip to
St. Louis today with some friends (about a 1-1/2 hour
drive away). Heard about the Obama mess downtown &
stopped at Kimmswick just a few miles south instead.
(Most of the ladies from here would love it by the way -
it's an old historic village that turned all their downtown
stores & homes into craft shops. Can't say the crafts
did too much for me - but the food was good!).

They expect 100,000 people in the village next weekend
for their annual Apple Butter Festival. We're staying away
from that mess as well (the shopping section is probably
less than a 1/4 x 1/8 mile area with 1 road into town).

You couldn't pay me to go to either event!

[deb]

I think Pianoman may be onto something here...they did the same thing when he came to Newport News, VA...timed it the same day as the Fall Festival in NN Park, when lots of people come from out of town.

The planners must be finding the big events on city calendars so they can take over them and claim the numbers.

[Full Quiver]

If the people are actually at his stops then it isn't just claiming the numbers. An apple butter event next weekend does not mean that too many folks get to St. Louis a week early. If they were there then they were there.

It's still frightening.

[Pianoman]

If the people are actually at his stops then it isn't just claiming the numbers. An apple butter event next weekend does not mean that too many folks get to St. Louis a week early. If they were there then they were there.

It's still frightening.

I was trying to be somewhat sarcastic. If 100,000 people
would turn our for Apple Butter - I wasn't too surprised
that many would turn out for a political event.