My favorite non-political blogger John Scalzi took the time to notice Sen. Obama’s rock-star-like rally here in Stumptown:
75,000 people at a single Obama rally in Oregon. Yes, they may be all pot-smoking hippies up there in Oregon, but honestly, even if they are, when was the last time 75,000 pot-smoking hippies managed to get it together enough to be in the same place at the same time? I’ll give you Bonnaroo, but after that it gets dodgy. Certainly anything without a scraggly-haired rock guitarist hasn’t rated this for a decade or two.
I wasn’t the first commenter over there to mention that local band gone big The Decemberists did open for Sen. Obama, but I believe I was the first to mention that Colin Meloy, their front man, has indie rock hair, which is very nearly scraggly.
Nice of Scalzi to notice! (That’s not snark.)
As of my typing this, CNN Politics’ top story shows a picture of Sen. Obama in front of the gianormous crowd in Portland, but buries the number of attendees in the sixth paragraph. Fascinating. Boo to CNN.