Obama Will Accept Nomination at Bank of America Stadium

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49. A lot of people in this thread are making too big a deal out of this and pointing to this

as further proof that Obama is a corporate sell out or he's doing it because of what a huge crowd will do to build up his ego. Of course they don't understand history and Obama isn't the first president to use a stadium setting, as some assume. FDR did in 1936 and so did JFK. As for the reason he is giving an outdoor speech in a stadium that can fill up to many thousands--that should be obvious. NC is a key state and the more people who come the better it is. What a demonstration of strength it would be for Obama to fill the 70,000 person stadium and have several more thousand outside. As for the name--yes, that is unfortunate, but what can Obama do about it? He needs a big venue (like Denver in '08) and this is the choice. Most other stadiums these days, too, have corporate names.