May 20, 2008...12:58 pm
75,000 Oregonians at Portland Obama Rally
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Oregon Turnout Expected to Top 1,000,000
An election-day voter stampede is expected to propel Oregon’s highest primary turnout in 20 years, state officials projected Monday.
More than 800,000 voters cast ballots in the vote-by-mail election as of Monday, and elections officials predicted another 250,000 will drop off their ballots before today’s 8 p.m. deadline.
Secretary of State Bill Bradbury estimates a turnout between 50 percent and 60 percent.
Today is Oregon’s primary. Seeing people beoming so energized and active in this election, in order to bring about necessary and urgent change, is just so exciting to me. I can’t tell you how many elections (general) are ‘called’ before we in Oregon even finish voting (though not any more since we went to mail-in ballots). It has always felt like voting was just going through the motions living on the West Coast, and my vote didn’t really matter anyway. This year feels so different - and so VERY important.
Gummitch posted more on the Obama rally in Portland from May 18th here.
And just in case you need a couple more pictures to give the scope of just how HUGE this crowd was, here are a few more. Its a SEA of people!
14 Comments
May 20, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I love Oregon.
May 20, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Wow. Just, wow. Hillary wishes she had crowds like that.
May 20, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Hillary is accepting victory in Crackastan.
May 20, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Talking about this campaign is not over — more determined than ever. *sigh*
It will be over by June 2, when the superdelegates come out for Obama.
She’s been “outspent massively?” Really? She’s begging the crowd for money — that’s the only reason she’s staying in…
May 20, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I’m sorry but that crowd looked like more than 75,000 to me. I wish we could count on somebody to do a truly accurate count, it’s possible.
May 20, 2008 at 5:27 pm
You know Hillary would be wise to take a lesson from Senator Kennedy. He didn’t have to be President to achieve greatness, he’s done great things as a senator. And when he’s gone his legacy will live on forever as one of the greatest in history. Hillary and Bill on the on the other hand are working on putting another negative footnote to Bill’s legacy.
May 20, 2008 at 5:29 pm
As Kentucky goes, so goes the nation.
Lordy….I thought that was West Virginia?
May 20, 2008 at 5:32 pm
“People ask me all the time how I keep going.”
And she didn’t even tear up.
May 20, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Ugh, the bike and video game kid — she better give that kid a bike when all this is over.
May 20, 2008 at 5:57 pm
She’s being “outspent massively?” Really? She’s begging the crowd for money — that’s the only reason she’s staying in…
She is broke because she has to pay Mark Penn something like 10 million dollars.. She’s something like $25million in the hole (at least she was a couple weeks ago. OH! And, she owes herself someting like $10 million.. (how nice to have a spare ten million to loan yourself..) It’s probably worse than that now). If she had the money, she’d be toe, dollar to dollar with him. You betcha.
May 20, 2008 at 5:59 pm
She is either:
1: Positioning for VP (under extreme pressure)
2: Positioning for an Independent run
or
3: Positioning for 2012 run.
This really pisses me off. Its all about her, and her feeling entitlement to the presidency for whatever reason..
May 20, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I would bet on door #3, muse, which is so despicable I can’t even stand to think of it. Someone who could do such a thing is worse than George W. Bush, and that’s really saying something.
May 20, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Yep door #3. She cares more about herself than the country.
May 20, 2008 at 6:31 pm
We don’t need anymore of that shit — we’ve had enough of it over the last 8 years.
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