The Power of Change
ecthompsonmd
May 19, 2008
Senator Barack Obama garnered a crowd of 70 thousand people in Portland. Nope, that’s not a typo. It wasn’t the 700 folks that gathered to hear Senator John McCain or even the 7 thousand folks that gathered to hear other popular political figures. Instead, it was 70 thousand!!! Wow! From the Washington Post: Sen. Barack Obama has seen his share of large crowds over the last 15 months, but his campaign said they have not approached the numbers gathered along the waterfront here right now. The campaign, citing figures from Duane Bray, battalion chief of Portland Fire & Rescue, estimated that
