Back. The Rachel Maddow show starts about. Thanks at home for joining us this hour. Rachel has the night off. Back in the early days of thensenator Barack Obamas president ial candidacy, back when he was just starting to run for the nomination against hillary clinton, go all the way back to then, even then he could still pull in a crowd. Early february 2007, this was just before he even officially announced his campaign for president. A medium sized event at Iowa State University in ames, but it had to be moved because of, quote, larger than expected interest. Organizers thought that about a thousand people would show up at the event, and thats really a good crowd for most politicians. A thousand people if you can draw that, youre doing pretty well usually. But in the days leading up to that event for obama in 2007 the organizers recalculated and found that about five times as many people as that were going to be there or want to be there. They moved it to Iowa State Universitys basket
Early february 20 thousand 7, this was just before he even officially announced his campaign for president. A medium sized event at Iowa State University in ames, but it had to be moved because of, quote, larger than expected interest. Organizers thought that about a thousand people would show up at the event, and thats really a good crowd for most politicians. A thousand people if you can draw that, youre doing pretty well usually. But in the days leading up to that event for obama in 2007 the organizers recalculated and found that about five times as many people as that were going to be there or want to be there. They moved it to Iowa State Universitys basketball arena, Hilton Coliseum they call it so they can accommodate the 5,000 people who were clamoring to hear senator obama speak. It was a small crowd for candidate obama. Weeks later 9,000 people waited in long lines to fill an Outdoor Sports complex just to see him. In austin, texas, 20,000 people turned out. In oakland, califo
Still pull in a crowd. Early february 20 thousand 7, this was just before he even officially announced his campaign for president. A medium sized event at Iowa State University in ames, but it had to be moved because of, quote, larger than expected interest. Organizers thought that about a thousand people would show up at the event, and thats really a good crowd for most politicians. A thousand people if you can draw that, youre doing pretty well usually. But in the days leading up to that event for obama in 2007 the organizers recalculated and found that about five times as many people as that were going to be there or want to be there. They moved it to Iowa State Universitys basketball arena, Hilton Coliseum they call it so they can accommodate the 5,000 people who were clamoring to hear senator obama speak. It was a small crowd for candidate obama. Weeks later 9,000 people waited in long lines to fill an Outdoor Sports complex just to see him. In austin, texas, 20,000 people turned
senate seats up for grabses in 2014, four-long time senators announcing they won t be seeking re-election in addition to kerry. there s jay rockefeller, saxby chambliss and iowa s tom hark. the republican party story is the same. what the primaries look like? do republicans coalesce around a more electable candidate in a state, whether it s a minnesota, whether it s an iowa or does the more conservative candidate win? do the special interest conservative groups get involved? can carl robe get involved in clear primaries as he hinted he wants to do? democrats are most concerned about clearing the field and have shown an ability to do that. and they re also trying to deal with their own potential retirements and recruitments, something they ve done successfully for the past couple of cycles and will already in iowa in the case of bruce bayly. next we ll see what happens.