Live from Tri-C: OBAMAMAMAMAMAMA Mania

UPDATE: Oh what a couple of minutes make on that shot of the gym...

It's 4:30pm. The rally isn't scheduled to start for another hour and a half, but the line is already out the door. 

Here's your pre-rally teaser. It's official folks, the '08 Presidential Race has landed in Ohio. With less than 2 hours till the Senator takes the stage, I have a feeling it's going to land hard.

Also, staffers are telling me they had 3,500 signups online...but about 50% of the folks showing up have a ticket, 50% don't. This place is gonna be packed

Cruising the crowd I caught a couple of BSB readers volunteering with the Obama folks. Take a listen to what one's saying.

A couple more shots pre-rally after the break.

About 20 shots of this would show how many folks were here at 4:30 when I showed up.

Tri-C is crawling with volunteers. The story is the same with all of them too. "I want to work for the man. I want to be on staff"

Literally took me 5-10 minutes to follow the line from the front door all the way to here. That's at 4:30pm too...a couple of hours before the Senator's slotted to take the stage.

Random staffer givin' the volunteers the heads up for how much energy Obama's gonna come out with.