Obama rallies about 1,000 supporters in Elko
ELKO — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama today called for tougher regulations on Wall Street investment companies and tax breaks for 95 percent of the U.S. population during speech before about 1,000 supporters at a park.
"We simply cannot afford four more years of an economic philosophy that has worked for Wall Street and not Main Street, and now has decimated both," Obama said in this small Northern Nevada town.
The turnout was four times what his campaign had estimated Tuesday in a city where President Bush won by an almost a 4-to-1 margin in 2004.
About 100 people protested Obama’s appearance.