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
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