May 06, 2008

And The Sparse Crowd Goes Wild!

At NC State University's Reynolds Coliseum, where Barack Obama will speak later tonight, the big screen TVs were on when NBC “projected Obama as the winner.”

“Usually when this happens on primary nights, the Obama crowds go wild. But it’s only 7:30 p.m. – they haven’t even started letting the cheering section in yet. It’s just several dozen journalists and a scattering of Obama campaign volunteers and organizers. So instead of the usual waves of sustained roaring and cheering, there was a little burst of ‘Woo-hoo’ and clapping over on the right-hand side of the still mostly-empty room” (“Primary Source”).

Posted at 08:25 PM

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