Holy shit.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008 ... nt-1015698

Wow, just think about the logistics of getting 75000 people to sign a LOYALTY OATH.

That's the easy part. Typing 75,000 people's contact information into a spreadsheet and calling through all the potential volunteers is the hard part. It was a nightmare trying to organize all that backroom stuff after the 19,000-person rally in Houston -- that was the biggest rally I personally dealt with as a staffer. 75,000 would make me shit upwards.

Can you imagine how many lattes the nearby coffeeshops sold?

That crowd is shaped like Texas. Rotate it clockwise.

This is unbelievably impressive. Was Oprah in town?

Wowzers.

Haha. Who knew there were so many socialist commie America-hating racist elitists in Oregon!

Once again you are wrong.

65,000

Probably would have been easier to stage it in Eugene.

That article says 80,000.

Fire officials estimated 65,000 packed into a riverside park for a spectacular afternoon rally at a sun-splashed scene on the banks of the Willamette River in Portland. They said an additional 15,000 were left outside and dozens of boaters could be seen floating in the river.

If anything, it makes the event look bigger and more incredible. They could hold 65,000 and STILL had to leave 15,000 people watching from the sidelines. Unbelievable.

Munk trolls with the same ineptitude that Bush governs. Nitpicking on the exact number is, of course, stupid, since these are based on estimates. The point is that it's an amazingly huge crowd.

Have you ever been to Oregon!?!?? 90% of the landmass is pure redneck, but Portland and 60% of the state's population is strongly liberal.

I guess somewhere in that crowd is Bill switching sides over to Obama!

Oregon "rednecks" are awesome though. Same with the good folks in eastern California. There's something substantively different from Appalachian rednecks.

the hidden message is that Texas will go blue in november.

I think the main difference is that Western state's rednecks tend to be less religious than their eastern and southern counterparts. My father's side (he's a logger, can't get much more redneck than that) contains the typical Oregon/Washington/California type of redneck. Pro gun but moderately social/economically conservative and don't care a whit about religion.

...approaching full-on cult status...

Join us, Bradley. It doesn't hurt. We can all be one happy family.

The last thing that came close to that in Canada was TrudeauMania. Thousands of young females would go running after the Prime Minister.

It's all just so bright and shiny...

It's as if you look past the fact that I have stated numerous times I am voting for Obama.

Welcome to the club of "Why Won't Beeblebrox listen, 'cause he's just too busy spreading his silly nonsense to actually pay attention to what people say beyond his preconceived notions"

Western rednecks? Aren't they all tweakers by now?

Do you know the meaning of the word "projecting," Jeff? Just askin'.

For the record, here's Munk's sentiments on this election year:

"I can't wait until something bad happens under this House/Congress/President.

You Democrats are going to get DESTROYED."

Would a real Obama supporter wish for something bad to happen to America so that Democrats get destroyed?

I don't see parties. As Colbert doesn't see color.

You have this sense like Republicans are not American! It's as if you care less about any Republicans. Your an ass and deserve to be shipped away to live in poverty.