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...resonant coup. But the governor, having bypassed the opportunity to endorse Clinton on Thursday night, is endorsing Obama. On Friday, she appeared at Obama's side at the candidate's rally at Key Arena, which was filled to capacity with about 18,000 people. About 3,000 more occupied overflow space outside...
...Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign isn't conceding the student vote. An appearance by the former President on Saturday at the University of Missouri in Columbia drew so many people that the school had to open additional space for the overflow, just one of many huge crowds that both Democrats are attracting throughout the state...
John McCain's town-hall meetings in New Hampshire the weekend before he won the primary were packed--a fire marshal had to keep overflow people from entering one of them--and not with conservatives. At a school in Salem, the Republican fielded question after question from his left. What would he do to promote gun control? How would he fight global warming? How could he justify not raising taxes? More than an hour into the event, a woman got up and complained about liberal smear artists. She was the first questioner who was obviously a Republican...
...events felt flat and forced; the sound system wouldn't work well; the mike screeched back at her. Clinton's crowds each day, impressive by normal standards, could not rival Obama's immense events, so staffers were reduced to moving risers and limiting entry to create the appearance of overflow. Conservative fund raisers, meanwhile, were pondering in emails to one another whether to cut Clinton's name from their direct-mail appeals and paste in Obama's. A G.O.P. operative, after watching both party debates on Saturday night, declared, "Well, it's over now. She doesn't have a chance...
...reporters jumped from their seats and ran to the parking lot. An overflow crowd of 200 for Mitt, whose events had been drawing merely respectable crowds, would be news. A short jog to the parking lot revealed: satellite trucks and some people carrying Ron Paul signs. Oh. A Romney staffer caught up with us: "They were just here...