HOLY SHIT DENVER!

[Drunken Irishman]

Tilt your head...

[DrToast]

1. OMG! They're all going to fall off the earth!

[matt819]

24. After all, gravity is only a theory (nt)

[Politicub]

30. Only if god wants them to because of his holy Velcro.

They're only sticking to the earth because they're covered with celestial loops to match with god's hooks.

[PatrynXX]

38. thought I was watching

the last Episode of Danger Mouse. Now it's DON"T PANIC!!!

um. in todays world this would be called tilt the pad. unless it tilts with it.. maybe trick it into thinking it's one way when it's not Like from time to time I gotta bang the bottom because I'm watching youtube sideways

[BraKez2]

2. 16K

[intheflow]

11. Is that the crowd estimate?

Where'd you get the number from? I can't find any crowd estimate in local news sources. But I sure would love a link to post on the "Romney & Ryan fill Red Rocks" (10k seating capacity) news reports. A whole hellova lot easier to get 10k to RR with both candidates on an evening than 16k to City Park just to see the President in the middle of an afternoon.

[BraKez2]

14. twitter.com/lis_smith

Lis Smith (Lis_Smith):
HUGE: 16,000 people turn out mid-afternoon for @BarackObama in Denver

Seen it as a Retweet from Stephanie Cutter..

[intheflow]

26. Thanks.

[progressivebydesign]

19. Big Diff.. the ROmney event was a FREE concert open to ANYONE..

they couldn't give away enough tickets to their usual list, so they opened it up to social media to give the tickets away. it was not about Romney... it was a free concert.

[BraKez2]

21. President Obama's twitter page just tweeted

16000 strong in Denver....

[Buddyblazon]

47. Red Rocks official seating capacity is 9,450

We regularly get it to 9600 for shows.

And I agree with your assessment.


And why the fuck is Romney using Red Rocks? Built by the government. Owned by the government. Staffed by IATSE Local 7. The place is everything the fucktard rails against.

[Maximumnegro]

3. For a sec I thought this was for Romney

then I saw some black people... phew!!!

CO is not going to R/R without a fight!

[AspenRose]

6. R/R was at R/R (Red Rocks)

.

[Barbara2423]

23. That is funny, thanks for the laugh.

[DMacTX]

4. I see white, black, hispanic, asian, old, young, male, female,..and I'm certain LGBT are there.

what a contrast to the low budget, poorly attended GOP Nuremburg rallies.

[Maximumnegro]

8. HA!

[MSMITH33156]

5. Nice enthusiasm gap

[Samjm]

7. I was supposed to be there...

Had tickets, but my kid came down with Strep

[JimDandy]

41. Sorry about your kids. Wish you could have come-It was great fun.

I'd say there were about 15,000 people. They had a great band "Soul X" that played during the 2 hrs we waited for the speakers.

Obama bounded up the stairs and onto the stage at about 3 pm and, while it was a shorter speech than in Florida, it was still inspiring. About 1/4 of the crowd stretched back behind the lights out of camera view in the photos. I see a dot in one of the pictures that I think is me. I think these photos were taken in the VIP section. I wasn't a VIP and didn't have a coveted red ticket but was close enough to get good video of him coming up the stairs to the podium.

[Panasonic]

51. Hell, your kid has that VP coin.

That's a priceless treasure

Obama will be back soon - probably going to come by on the last few days.

I attended a rally a week before the election in '08 - and it was HUGE - and it was at Civic Center Park.

[ejbr]

9. sideways rec. n/t

[justiceischeap]

10. For those that can't tilt their heads. :)

[silverweb]

16. Thank you.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]My neck wasn't cooperating well.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

17. I just turned the laptop. Nice view.

[silverweb]

28. It's a little harder with a desktop.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]

[sheshe2]

29. Gotta spasm in my neck!

LOL Thanks!

[skeewee08]

12. Wow!!!! That's AWESOME!!!!

There is no way in he** Robme is winning Colorado.....

[KevTucky]

13. The Romney Ryan speech went over well.

With those who can speak German.... ;

[MisterJones]

15. We know what the real party of inclusion is...

Real diversity here. Not only diversity of eye color like at the RNC.

I just hope they have some snipers. Every time the President goes out to one of these rallies I get a little paranoid.

[JimDandy]

42. Not to worry! There was protective cover on buildings ringing the meadow.

Could see some on roof tops with your naked eye from inside the meadow area and with binoculars could see others in the area.

[silverweb]

18. Wonderful!

[font color="purple" font size=5 face="Comic Sans"]GObama! [/font]

[Caretha]

20. Scuse me! 3 - 4k at most

[Lex]

22. LOL.

Must be numbers from the media reports.

[WI_DEM]

27. I read it's more like 16k

[defacto7]

31. I think there's more

than that just showing in this picture. I'm a head counting kind of guy.

[locks]

25. Thanks for the great pictures

I didn't get down from Boulder because I can't stand that long so I'm happy to see that crowd. They stood a long time in the changing weather (43 today, 74 last night at Red Rocks). CNN broadcasted from City Park but did not show the crowd. Obama looked great in shirtsleeves and backed up by by many you can be sure are 47%ers. Colorado's going to pull this one out just like we did in 08.

[otohara]

32. I'm Back by the Flags

could hear him, caught glimpse when my husband hoisted me up for about 1 second!

[JimDandy]

43. Hi.

I was just north of the stairs to the platform and directly west of the podium about 10 rows in but unfortunately what had to be the tallest guy in the arena was standing right in front of me most of the time.

[otohara]

45. Hey Neighbor

glad the snow didn't rain on our rally today!

[kstewart33]

33. My hubby and I gave our youngest daughter permission to skip school...

To go down to City Park and see her president. She'll have to make up 3 exams, but this is a day that she'll never forget.

She texted us by noon and sent a pic of all kinds of Obama buttons that she got there. Seems that O buttons are quite the thing.

[progressivebydesign]

36. Oh that's awesome! Hope that she took pics. nt

[PsychProfessor]

49. I love this

When I was a kid remember seeing old Kennedy, Humphrey, McGovern, and Carter buttons in my dad's top dresser drawer. Your daughter will have those buttons for the rest of her life, to remember her day of seeing this great president! Fantastic!

[Panasonic]

52. My mom still has Like Ike button

that still stands proudly on our posterboard downstairs.

Also includes Clinton-Gore button in Hebrew.

[Bluzmann57]

34. Before Denver, he was in Davenport, IA

And we had around 4000 in attendance here. It was a fairly small area and it was 10:00 AM when he spoke, so the number is quite remarkable.
Davenport to Denver to Los Angeles to Nevada to Chicago in 48 hours. Whew! What a schedule!

[HereSince1628]

35. The sideways pic hides the enthusiasm gap, RIGHT?

[CindyinIndy]

37. Thanks for the pics!

These make my day!

[krispos42]

39. I don't get it.

???

[occupymybrain]

40. I was like OMG when i got there.

last night Romney and Ryan had a show rally and drew 10,000 plus and that was with a free show and it was historic Red Rocks. The president gets 16,000 , during the day. It was a great time to be had the crowed was huge thankfully the weather held off.

[JimDandy]

44. The wind blowing through the mike sounded eerie

when Hickenlooper was speaking. We got lucky all right. A light drizzle started literally as soon as Obama finished his speech. Denver Mayor Hancock had a good speech too!

[desertduck]

46. GEEZ!!! that is awesome!!! NT

[FSogol]

48. Wow, no path to the sea for Romney...

[Panasonic]

50. City Park yesterday?

Do we have the official numbers? Originally I estimated 35k to come before the rally hit - the park can hold up to 70-80k easily.