Whoa - overflow crowd for Hillary (and Bill) in St. Louis

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Topic subject Whoa - overflow crowd for Hillary (and Bill) in St. Louis
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4124556, Whoa - overflow crowd for Hillary (and Bill) in St. Louis
Posted by bcool on Sat Jan-19-08 09:14 PM

My wife & I just came back from trying to attend a town hall meeting with Hillary & Bill, and we were turned away (along with quite a few others) due to lack of room. It was being held at a high school in Florissant, MO that has, I would guess, a capacity of around 1-2 thousand. They were scheduled to open the doors at 8:00pm, but by the time we got there at 7:45, people were already streaming back to their cars after being turned away. They may have started to let people in early to get out of the cold - it's 12 degrees here right now.

Interestingly, most of the people we saw (coming and going) were in their 20s. Another interesting observation was that several of the cars we saw had out-of-state license plates.

While HRC isn't our favorite, it was encouraging to see the turnout - especially the numbers of younger people.