BARACK OBAMA DRAWS RECORD BREAKING CROWD 75,000 ATTEND OBAMA RALLY IN PORTLAND OREGON

We just have to say that a picture speaks a thousand words. The image of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama attending a campaign rally in Portland Oregon shows his strength and appeal as a presidential candidate to the the white working class voter. Senator Obama drew a record breaking crowd of 75,000 people. His opponent Senator Hillary Clinton says despite her lacking the delegates to receive the Democratic nomination she will continue in the race. Many are accusing Senator Clinton of "race baiting" when she made remarks to USA Today that Senator Barack Obama does not appeal to "white working class voters" and these voters are not ready for an African American president.

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Senator Barack Obama drew the largest crowd of his campaign so far on Sunday, addressing an estimated 75,000 people who had gathered here on the banks of the Willamette River.  “Wow! Wow! Wow!” were his first words as he surveyed the multitude, which included people in kayaks and small pleasure craft on the river on an unseasonably hot day in Oregon.

It is “fair to say this is the most spectacular setting for the most spectacular crowd” of his campaign, he told the audience. His wife and daughters, who have been with him most of the weekend, joined him on the stage at the beginning of the event but left as he was about to speak.

Mr. Obama has been campaigning extensively in Oregon, a state he hopes to win in Tuesday’s primary, as the Democratic presidential nominating race ticks down to its last handful of contests. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has been on a four-day swing through Kentucky, which also holds its primary on Tuesday and where she appears likely to draw the most votes.

Mr. Obama stopped earlier at an ice cream parlor, Lew’s Dari-Freeze and Drive In, in Milwaukie, a suburb of Portland. There, answering questions from reporters, he edged closer to declaring victory in the Democratic battle than has been his habit. He said he was returning to Iowa to await the results of the primaries on Tuesday night because “we thought it was a terrific way to bring things full circle.”

If things “go as we hope,” he said, “then we think we will have a majority of pledged delegates at that point.” That, he continued, would be “a pretty significant mark.” source