Reply #191: Crowds

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What's interesting to me as I think about it, is that I've seen Obama three times in St. Louis, and every time the crowd grows bigger. I went to see him at a Claire McCaskill Rally in 2006 in Forest Park and I was way up close because I'd volunteered for the McCaskill campaign. The crowd was pretty big then but not huge. In the primaries there were way more people than in 06, but not as many as today. Now of course there are way more. I was pretty lucky that I got to see Obama way close up before everyone knew who he was, cause I doubt it'll ever happen again.

I bet one reason Claire McCaskill is helping Obama so much is that supported her when she was running by speaking at her rally.

I was thinking it would be pretty easy to calculate about how many people. There is a defined area people were in, and if you could figure out the square footage of space filled and how much space a person filled up I bet you could get a pretty accurate count. I don't know how they do it though really.

Meg