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Rocking the house -- and the vote -- for Obama in Denver stadium

 

Published 8/29/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics

The scene at Invesco Field is part celebration, part a call for Obama campaign volunteers. > Not since John F. Kennedy's speech at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1960 has the Democratic Party staged a spectacle so grand for the acceptance speech of its White House nominee. (link)

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