2 mile long lines to see Obama

[bascule]

Obama is in Denver right now (watching it live), and is going on to Colorado State University to speak in a venue that holds 20,000.

 

The lines to get into that venue are 2 miles long

 

http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081026/NEWS03/81026007/1002/rss

 

(whoops, how did this end up in computer science? my bad)

Edited October 26, 2008 by bascule

[ecoli]

what a rockstar. If all those people actually vote, I see him winning this thing no problem. Who knows how large McCain's "silent majority" is though.

[bascule]

Here's a photo of his visit to Denver, with over 100,000 people attending:

 

[ecoli]

anecdotal I know, but in a city with a large african american population, don't most of those faces look white to you?