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blogger in attendance check out Jerid at  Buckeye State Blog.  We have no idea where he is, but we know he’s here.

Some guy on the microphone is raging on about the war and education and wait… he just invoked Ghandi.  Apparently according to this guy we completely F#@*ed up in 2004 by re-electing Bush, but c’mon…
President Kerry?
Talk about a disaster.

as in “give it up” for the next semi-famous local celebrity to grace the walkway.
BTW, the appropriate sign is to raise your hands in the air and and shake your fingers… I always thought was how you were supposed to show appreciation in a deaf audience.   I guess it’s the same thing…

A little while back Mansfield Frazier posted a piece on the Silent Majority questioning the racial make-up of the Obama campaign.  He opined that perhaps the campaign was too white and that it would Obama with African American voters.  Well judging by the crowd tonight, he couldn’t have been more wrong.
This is not a white crowd, […]

Some woman who works for Tri-C is welcoming the crowd - sorry but I didn’t get her name…
She’s shadowed by the obligatory sign languateer.
The rally the crowd types are making their passes at the microphone.  Now some morning show DJ - how the hell should I know who he is… I don’t listen to him so […]

The runway corral was kept empty until they could find the folks that “look right” and now they’ve filled in the area immediately the surrounding walkway with a nice youthful demographic armed with the obligatory Obama signs.  It kind of begs the question though, can Obama appeal to anyone over the age of 30? 

As things have progressed the age of the crowd has gone down significantly.  It plays into what Anthony was saying before about the energy in the room.  So OK, they come to  more rallies and make noise, but do they vote?
The under 30 crowd is becoming more politically active, but they still don’t vote in the kind […]

but Anthony’s wondering why Kerry didn’t run this year…
ahhh… because he’d get his ass kicked.

Look how hard he’s working.
Check him out at Blue Ohioan.

The sound is deafening…  the Shaw High School Marching Band is rocking out.  Man you can just feel the enthusiasm in here.  Anthony just mentioned to me that you don’t see this at a Sam Brownback rally…
and he is sooooo right.
Democrats have more fun.  But they run lousy campaigns.