Obama rally, St Louis, MO: 100,000 people, maybe 150,000? PICTURE

[Shoelace]

I just listened to it live and heard there was a picture out there. Wall Street Journal of all places - they had this picture. WOW, picture worth a hundred thousand words!!!:bounce:




Barack Obama attracted 100,000 people at a Saturday rally here, his biggest crowd ever at a U.S. event.

The crowd assembled under the Gateway Arch on a sunny Saturday afternoon to hear Obama speak about taxes and slam the Republicans on economic issues.

Lt. Samuel Dotson of the St. Louis Police Department confirmed the number of attendees piled into the grassy lawn flanked by the Missouri capital and the Missouri River.


A Rasmussen poll released on Friday shows Obama leading in Missouri 52% to 46% for McCain.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/18/obama-rally-draws-100000-in-missouri/?mod=googlenews_wsj

[renate]

1. that's beautiful

:woohoo:

[Shoelace]

20. sure looks like way more than 100K to me

and someone there said it was way closer to 150,000. Sending this pic to everybody I know. Doing my Happy Dance now!

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[Owl]

2. AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[Shoelace]

22. there's even more pictures on another DU post - awesome is right!!!

Another Duer posted alot of pics so gotta share these with you all:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7507165

[ThatsMyBarack]

3. Power of the people!

I hope everyone of those people elects Obama with PAPER ballots! :patriot:

[tridim]

4. Holy crap that's Woodstock!

Barackstock.

[RagAss]

5. Robocall this, you assholes !!!!!!!

[speedoo]

6. Holy blowout!!!

That's incredible. I gotta take back every bad thing I ever said about St. Louis.

I have a hunch Kit Bond and all those Missouri rethugs are getting ready to be very, very nice to Obama.

[The Shadow]

7. Real Americans!

[KingFlorez]

8. Amazing

[Tatiana]

9. I wonder if these people are "pro-America?" n/t

[louis-t]

17. Heard one of my repug friends say that

last night. He's a talking points repeater. Knows repugs are losing, keeps saying he doesn't care what happens, seems angry and won't talk, yet says he's "pro-American". Last month it was "Americans are whiners." I challenge him mercilessly, until he storms off.

[Left 0f Center]

10. holy fuck.

speechless. :evilgrin:

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. A sight like this has got to make the GOP shit bricks. At least they've got

"Joe The Plumber".

[FLyellowdog]

12. This is the most amazing photo of all.

If this doesn't say something about Barack Obama, I don't know what does.

People, this is gonna happen. Good is going to overcome evil. I feel it.

GOTV!

[rateyes]

13. That's probably 5 or 6 times more people than McCain/Palin

has ever drawn. :wow:

[GreenInNC]

24. 7000 at McCain rally in NC today

Compare 100,000 to the McCain rally right outside of Charlotte (NC's largest city, MSA population 1.5 million). McCain had 7000 peopple

[Shoelace]

28. Todd Palin had 70 people show up at his rally

and I don't remember where it was held. It was yesterday somewhere in America.

[thoughtcrime1984]

39. Was he toting a "Charles Manson was a community organizer" sign there too?

[fugop]

14. Kerry final rallies...

I remember being blown away by some of Kerry's final rallies (wasn't a biggie in Philly?), but does anyone remember the numbers for those? This looks freakin' unBELIEVABLE!!!

[fishwax]

15. It would have to be a big crowd indeed to be flanked by the Missouri capitol and the Missouri River

Since the Missouri Capitol is 135 miles west in Jefferson City :rofl: The building is actually the Old Courthouse building.

Boy, what a great crowd, though. Great pic and great scene. Thanks for sharing it Shoelace! :bounce:

[rgbecker]

23. Actually, the Mississippi River.

The Missouri River dumps into the Mississippi about 30 miles north of St. Louis.

Great to see my Home Town is coming around. I left that place because of all the racists.

[nichomachus]

26. I know that once I get past the second "S", I lose track myself.

[fishwax]

29. haha -- yeah, that too

:rofl:

But at least the WSJ writer was in the right vicinity with the river :)

Funny graphic with the trains :toast:

[Cosmic Charlie]

16. I'm proud to be a Pro-American American, but I don't know what that means...

sung Greenwoodesque

[tabatha]

18. Yeah, I wonder what band the freepers will say played before

Obama spoke - and that 100,000 came to see the band.

That is awesome Obama - how can they possibly steal this one?

[ericgtr]

19. Looks like front page news for the Sunday paper to me

New record!

[opihimoimoi]

21. They came for the Band.....

McCrash is so upset he is sputtering and flailing about

[nichomachus]

25. If the police said 100,000, you know it's more like 150,000

They always underestimate liberal events and overestimate fascist events.

[Shoelace]

27. that's a true story, remember they said 80K at his speech in CO.

acceptance speech was estimated at 80K but before the media fried the numbers, the police said it was more like 95K, fire marshall allowed it.
Thousands outside didn't get in either. Fascist media!

[DCBob]

30. Capital of MO is Jeff City and the river near St Louis is the Missiissippi

But who cares -- look at that awesome crowd. :wow:

[TheDonkey]

31. OMG!!! YES!!!

[Myrina]

32. Meanwhile CNN slams Biden as only having '1500' at his rally ...

... while Palin supposedly draws 'enthusiastic crowds' +20k.
(I guess enthusiastic is a euphemism for 'insanely racist'??)


Sorry mediawhores but 150,000 > 20,000 ANY DAMN DAY OF THE WEEK.

[Shoelace]

36. CNN needs a DU wake up call: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/

Anderson Cooper last night made me puke. He's back and forth like the media whore he is. Methinks DUers need to email this pic to CNN!

I'm sending them that pic and article now, suggest y'all do same!

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/

[Shoelace]

37. I just sent CNN the pic, link to article - please contact them!!

people need to see this. CNN has been doing a terrible job in past couple of days. This is the link to CNNTV:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv/

[gateley]

45. How large were McCain's crowds before he chose Palin? For that matter,

how large are his crowds now when she doesn't appear with him? And he's the top of the ticket! Wonder how many people Pawlenty or Romney would attract.

[POAS]

33. Reminds me of MLK, jr at the Washington Mall

People as far as the eye can see!

[Lerrad]

34. Wow! That pic reminds me of the march on Washington 2003 n/t

[Sodan]

35. Just amazing!

[Phx_Dem]

38. Jesus. The crowd is so ginormous, the stage looks itty bitty.

CNN and MSNBC better show this rally, if they haven't already. Three times today I have had to get off my butt, walk into the other room and change the channel because they were showing McCain's sad little rally.

They either feel sorry for the angry old man, or they figure every Democrat in the country is attending Obama's rally in St. Lous (by the looks of it), so why bother broadcasting it when no one is home to watch it! Yeah, that's the ticket.

[StrictlyRockers]

40. WOW!!!! That picuture gives me a chill. That popularity is undeniable.

[Shoelace]

41. has anybody seen any of this on TV yet?

I haven't but I just turned it on to CNN. So far, nothing.
If you see it, report it. I want to see just how "fair and balanced" they are not!

[sakura]

42. Wow. That completely dwarfs the crowd at the Portland rally.

I was at that rally, and at Bill Clinton's rally in St. Louis during his first run. He was popular, but drew a crowd nowhere near as large. GO ST. LOUIS! GOBAMA!

[TeamJordan23]

43. I cannot believe nearly 150k people want to be associated with this terrorist.

:sarcasm:

[gateley]

44. Holy cow! That just gives me chills! nt

[book_worm]

46. What a thing of beauty! I think we might actually carry Missouri

[1corona4u]

47. St. Louis PD said 90 inside, and 10K out in line--didn't get in...

[leveymg]

48. There hasn't been anything like this since FDR. Historic - we're getting our government back!

Wow!

[krkaufman]

49. Ok, so St. Louis isn't real America. Bummer for them. n/t

;)