Hello, Denver

3:11 pm EST October 26th, 2008 | News | 10 Comments

We’ll know in 9 days if Colorado is really a “swing” state any more.

AP: Police: Crowd for Obama rally tops 100,000

Police estimate the crowd for a rally by Sen. Barack Obama at well over 100,000.

Police spokesman Sonny Jackson says the crowd Sunday spilled out of Civic Center Park to the State Capitol and onto surrounding streets as Obama visited Colorado nine days before the election.

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10 Responses to “Hello, Denver”

  1. Mike says:
    October 26, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    That’s more people than attended his convention speech! As someone who lives in Denver and works in Boulder, it’d be easy for me to assume that CO is and will be solidly Democratic, but much of the rest of the state is still mountain-west conservative (socially libertarian, rabidly anti-taxation). Still and all, CO feels like it’s in the bag for Obama. Can’t wait for Nov. 4!

  2. anotherbozo says:
    October 26, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    I always thought a national blowout/landslide for Obama would be a reasonable response to the comparative talents on offer. Is it too much to hope for it now?

    I still don’t trust the process or the American people, but the maddening thing is, every once in a while they wake up, and it halfway works – maybe this year?

  3. Jaim says:
    October 26, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    Awesome. Thanks for representing a better future for our country, Denver and CO.

  4. Colorado Dave says:
    October 26, 2008 at 8:03 pm

    Had to work so couldn’t go. I’m not at all surprised by the size of the crowd.

    Phone calls are going good. Most people I reach have already voted. Obama’s Colorado GOTV is much better organized and much more decentralized than was Kerry’s. From my understanding 25% of registered voters already have.

  5. jr says:
    October 26, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    “Obama was in CO for his birth certificate”-Rush

  6. Parthenon says:
    October 26, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    Conservative popularity lens:

    Popular Republican=second coming of Reagan!

    Popular Democrat=Second coming of Chairman Mao!

  7. william says:
    October 27, 2008 at 8:05 am

    Hello Denver,

    “…the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendancy to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.” (Obama-2001)

    See you stupid proles, we need to “break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution” to “guarantee redistributive change” and “social justice”.

    F the constitution!

  8. Gus says:
    October 27, 2008 at 8:57 am

    William,

    I don’t think that quote says what you seem to believe it says.

    I really don’t think it’s contracersial to say that the Warren court didn’t create a framework where government pays reparations and that the civil rights movement would have been better off pursuing that goal through developing the community rather than going to the courts.

  9. Duros Hussein 62 says:
    October 27, 2008 at 10:46 am

    Compare and contrast time again.

  10. buma says:
    October 27, 2008 at 11:40 am

    william, meet the dustbin of history.