Estimates for the crowd for the Obama rally in Albuquerque last night range from 35,000 to 45,000.
Three things to keep in mind.
1. People don’t vote at rallies.
2. Still, John McCain attracted a crowd of less than 1,000 in this same city only hours earlier.
3. If 40,000 people were at the Obama rally, while it lasted the rally was the 7th largest city in the state of New Mexico.
UPDATE: It now appears 45-50,000 were at the rally. That would make the Obama gathering larger than all but four New Mexico cities.
Or, put another way, 2½% of the entire state population.
Actually, they had an area set up where people could vote, before 6:00PM, at the rally. If you voted, you could go to the head of the line. So, at this rally, people voted.
It was cool. And it was very organized.
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