Historic moment for 6,000 excited Obama supporters

[True_Blue]

Source: GJ Sentinal

Even before the sun rose, supporters of Barack Obama were on the road toward the presidential candidate’s campaign appearance, the first by a Democrat in western Colorado in decades.

About 6,000 people filed into Cross Orchards Living History Farm on Monday morning for a speech by the Illinois senator, the first by a Democratic presidential candidate in Grand Junction since 1960 and the first open-air address by a candidate to a Grand Junction crowd since Harry Truman in 1948.

In both of those cases, the Democrats won.

That’s exactly the outcome sought by supporters such as Cori Hailey, who took her daughters to see Obama as he stood against the familiar backdrops of Mount Garfield and the Cross Orchards barn.

Read more: http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2008/09/15/091608_1a_Obama_reax.html

[Skittles]

1. compare this to the "crowds" McCain is getting

yes INDEED

[WhiteTara]

2. thanks. Great to see

how people want him as president.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Crossing fingers that he gets Colorado. Glad to see the turnout! n/t