Obama campaign says Saturday in Missouri set turnout record
Buffy Wicks, chief of Barack Obama’s operation in Missouri, sent out an e-mail and video to supporters this week saying the combined turnout Saturday in Kansas City and St. Louis set a single-day record for the campaign.
An estimated 100,000 supporters came out for Obama’s rally at the Arch, while another 75,000 saw the Democrat at the World War I museum in Kansas City.
“You should be proud of that, and of our state’s special role,” Wicks wrote. “Missouri has voted for the winner of every presidential election but one in the past 100 years.”
Of course, crowds don’t necessarily translate into votes — Obama himself is warning his supporters not to be complacent.
But, as Jo Mannies wrote on Sunday, the turnout has bolstered optimism about Obama’s chances in Missouri, one of a handful of remaining battleground states where the latest polls have shown a dead heat with Republican John McCain.
Let’s see, Senator McCain had approximately 3,000+ this past weekend, and Governor Palin is projected to have 4,000 at her visit.
If the same ratio of 75:3 or 75:4 is maintained, then Senator Obama will most assuredly carry Missouri.
CBS NEWS has just projected Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States….Don’t let this discourage you from voting on November 4, 2008. There are many local elections that will determine the fate of our economic misfortunes perpetrated by the Country-Club Republicans First agenda.
Obama campaign says Saturday in Missouri set turnout record…
And of course, you uncritically accept that as a fact.
I remember attending a Michael Dukakis rally at Mizzou back in ‘88. It was packed with enthusiastic supporters. Bush beat him handily.
Just goes to show how many gullible people there are around these parts.
Hey, Garrison: If CBS said it, it must be true. Don’t count your chickens before they lay eggs.
It’s over
No way! Obama had a bunch of people show up to a rally in the middle of two urban centers? Get out of here, and McCain and Palin didn’t have the same support, your kidding? Is this news? The support for republican canidates has never come out of the cities. It is from the rural areas around the cities. Besides, who cares if Obama has more supporters without anything better to do on a Saturday than to go and sit (or stand) at a political rally and here the same things they have or should have already heard 20 times? I guess with so many people at his rallies not all of the Obama supporters need go out and vote, just let the other guy do it. Wait, that sounds like a good slogan for the whole campaign. Just let the other guy do it. Just seems to fit.
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” . . . Besides, who cares if Obama has more supporters . . . ”
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Who cares?
You cares because you hem hawed for 10 lines about how it doesn’t make a difference.
So you know it makes a difference.
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A lot of the support for Obama will come from the cities because those are the places with a lot to lose if we get 4 more years of the last 8 years. People in the cities are used to things like opportunities for higher education and jobs that he will work to create. People in the cities have also grown tired of seeing the excesses of corporate socialism and cronyism and corruption that now flourish because the haves and the have mores control Washington and its tax policies. People in the cities are predominantly middle class and are tired of being overlooked in favor of oil company tycoons and other fat cat CEOs when the government offers tax relief to only those at the highest end of the economic spectrum. Many in the cities work at jobs where they get a healthcare plan as a benefit, which will be taxed under a McSame administration. And just what is it that his rural supporters think McSame will do for them? And do start by offering, as evidence, what Bush has done for them since he’s been in office.
I love this guy Obama. Read his full farm policy. That’s my first issue–small family farms. I’m rural to the roots. He’s fit and ready; and besides, the 106-year-old nun from Italy just voted for him. It was her first time voting since Ike in the 50’s. She wanted to to vote for someone who would be like a father to all the people. I like to think he will have open minds and hearts in Missouri also. Take a look at someone who is pretty sharp at 106, to give us all hope. Very sweet nun. Seeing it gave me good dreams. Lucille http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6037734
Of course a bunch of people are excited about Obama’s candidacy and he’s inspiring millions of first time voters - because he’s a socialist!