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Football stadium for Oprah-Obama rally
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| Wed Dec 5, 4:13 PM ET
| SEANNA ADCOX, Associated Press Writer
Posted on 12/06/2007 1:39:45 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has moved a campaign rally with talk show host Oprah Winfrey to a football stadium that can hold more than 80,000 people.
The event had been scheduled for an 18,000-seat coliseum near the University of South Carolina campus, but the campaign ran out of the free tickets just two days after it began distributing them. Tickets will no longer be needed.
"We wanted to make sure everyone in South Carolina who wanted to see Barack Obama and meet Oprah Winfrey had the opportunity," said Inez Tenenbaum, an Obama supporter and former state schools superintendent. "Everyone can attend who wants to attend."
The campaign doesn't expect to fill Williams-Brice Stadium, where college football coach Steve Spurrier and his Gamecocks play on fall Saturdays. But with the attention the event has drawn, and temperatures forecast in the 70s, officials are expecting a large crowd.
Obama's campaign said thousands of people called after the tickets for the coliseum all had been distributed.
"I have been called at my house," Tenenbaum said. "Everywhere I go, my friends say, 'I didn't get a ticket.'"
Doors will open at 12:30 p.m. and the program is to begin two hours later.
Winfrey also is to hold events with Obama in Iowa and New Hampshire.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: kingmaker; obama; obama2008; oprah; sc2008; triumphoftheoprah
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The triumph of style over substance.
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posted on
12/06/2007 1:42:15 PM PST
by
AU72
To: AU72
They will probably have a laser light show at the half time event!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Side note, what laws are there regarding the value of volunteer time or media promotion and the value of such promotion has on campaign finance. For example, Oprah’s time, based on commercial value if one was to hire here for a non-political event, would probably be far far greater than $2300/minute.
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posted on
12/06/2007 1:45:51 PM PST
by
mnehring
(..one candidate did not display any moderateness or liberalism...Fred Thompson - Rush Limbaugh)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Move it to the Vatican next for all I care....
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
They will probably have a laser light show at the half time event! And then sling-shot some Obama! t-shirts into the crowd.
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posted on
12/06/2007 1:46:57 PM PST
by
AU72
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Is Michelle running, too?
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posted on
12/06/2007 1:48:29 PM PST
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
80K
Wow.
HillRod is toast.
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posted on
12/06/2007 1:48:31 PM PST
by
NeoCaveman
("On illegal immigration, Huckabee makes George Bush sound like Tom Tancredo." - Ann Coulter)
To: NeoCaveman
Hillary is going to have a snit fit ... I wonder which campaign aide ends up with a lump on their head?
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posted on
12/06/2007 1:54:55 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Miss Didi
interesting that Michelle Obama is get top billing. Seems unusual
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posted on
12/06/2007 1:54:59 PM PST
by
bob_esb
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I thought it was the Oompah Loompah party.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
They will probably have a laser light show at the half time event! I wouldn't particularly relish seeing Oprah's wardrobe malfunction.
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posted on
12/06/2007 1:56:02 PM PST
by
Plutarch
To: bob_esb
She’s running in eight years.
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posted on
12/06/2007 1:56:35 PM PST
by
Sybeck1
(Join me for the Million Minutemen March --- Summer 2008!!)
To: Sybeck1; bob_esb; Ernest_at_the_Beach
She’s running in eight years. Queen Latifah could beat her.
To: Sybeck1
To: Sybeck1
Can’t think of a better way to utterly waste a perfectly good Sunday afternoon.
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posted on
12/06/2007 2:00:28 PM PST
by
EyeGuy
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Stay away from the brown acid!
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posted on
12/06/2007 2:01:38 PM PST
by
MarineBrat
(My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
To: Miss Didi
I assume that picture is supposed to make Obamalama Ding Dong appear forward-looking, visionary and noble, but to me he just looks . . . confused.
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posted on
12/06/2007 2:01:41 PM PST
by
Hunton Peck
(The world would have far fewer problems if more people would just pay attention.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway; Sybeck1
Ocra is his V.P. choice.
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To: AU72
The triumph of lack of style over substance.There, Fixed it..
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posted on
12/06/2007 2:01:48 PM PST
by
Wil H
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