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75,000 attend Obama rally in Oregon … ‘ohmygawd’

From Hillary's perspective, you may as well mark this with a political dateline of "Ohmygawd", Oregon.

Sen. Barack Obama today attracted something like 75,000 people to an outdoor rally in Portland. You can see the amazing pictures and story at:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/18/record_obama_crowd_the_size_of.html

According to the above post, the 75,000 estimate is not exaggeration. "The sea of heads stretches for half a mile along the grassy embankment, while others watch from kayaks and power boats bobbing on the Willamette River. More hug the rails for the steel bridge that stretches across the water and crowds are even watching from jetties on the opposite shore."

Can you spell "phenomenon"?

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