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Obama Draws 35,000 In Philly

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Pennsylvania

Is this a record for a competitive primary event? I searched around but all I found were more links to similar stories about Obama in Philly.

From AP:

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Barack Obama was greeted by the largest crowd of his campaign Friday night in Philadelphia. Some 35,000 people jammed into Independence Park to see the Democratic presidential candidate, four days before this state’s crucial April 22 primary.

Frank Friel, director of security at the Independence Visitor Center, made the official estimate.

The crowd exceed the 30,000 who greeted Obama and Oprah Winfrey in December in Columbia, S.C.

Who knows…maybe Pennsylvania will go for him after all?

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2 Responses to “Obama Draws 35,000 In Philly”

TerenceC Says:
April 19th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Philly wil - PA won’t - by the way I was at the event.
mw Says:
April 19th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Terence - you should write up a report for us, I bet Justin will let you guest post it.

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