75,000

That's the number of people who showed up to see Senator Barack Obama speak at the Portland waterfront. Seventy-five thousand people, like more than show up to football games, Rolling Stones concerts, I'd expect more than any Presidential nomination campaign event prior to Convention in history. Even the candidate himself was impressed:

“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.

More pix here. Local news report here:



And he's doing "small" as well, talking ice cream with a kid, uh, too young to vote:



Yum yum.

And is life matching up for Senator John McCain? Not so much.