[nwrep]

I agree with you. People here are being overly sensitive, and a casual reader may think we are accusing the AP (falsely) of doctoring the photo by cutting and pasting crowds, or something underhanded like that. The fact remains that it was a bigger crowd than any Republican will get anywhere this year (2008), but still not any indication of what will happen in November.

[Richard Kimball]

Agreed. Now, here's a doctored photo:

[xDGx]

I agree with you. People here are being overly sensitive, and a casual reader may think we are accusing the AP (falsely) of doctoring the photo by cutting and pasting crowds, or something underhanded like that. The fact remains that it was a bigger crowd than any Republican will get anywhere this year (2008), but still not any indication of what will happen in November.

Nowhere has 'doctoring' the photo by cutting & pasting crowds been suggested. What is undeniable is that the pictures were cropped to show the maximum amount of people and ZERO amount of anything else. No trees, no boundaries, no horizons, no edges, just people. And read the titles of the Obama reports on Google news. They are all agog over the 'record crowd' in Portland to hear Obama's lates message (hope? change?) Then they trot out a carefully cropped image to imply that this was the million man rally. (Since this is Portland, call it the 'Million Moonbat Rally') Tain't so! I dislike being spoon-fed selective imagery by MSM photo editors.

[af_vet_rr]

The fact remains that it was a bigger crowd than any Republican will get anywhere this year (2008), but still not any indication of what will happen in November.

I can't agree with this enough. Whether it was 50,000 or 75,000 people, McCain won't be drawing crowds like that. He's not that charismatic and he just doesn't draw in the young people who are willing to give up an afternoon like that.

Given that it's still technically a primary (although the only question left is when is Hillary dropping out), it's pretty amazing.

Thinking about it - this extended primary season has helped Obama a lot. Sure, Rush Limbaugh wanted people to vote for Hillary to "hurt the Democrats" (when in reality Rush stood to make a ton of money if Hillary would have gotten the nomination) and Rush kept saying it would hurt the Democrats, but Obama has now campaigned in states where the Republicans did not have to, and Obama now has organizations setup in those states who are going to be ready this fall. Given the state of McCain's fundraising and state-level organizations, I'd be pretty worried if I was running his campaign.

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The fact remains that it was a bigger crowd than any Republican will get anywhere this year (2008)

There is a real Republican running? Where???