Seats for Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Field snapped up in a day

Barack Obama visits a restaurant in St. Paul, Minn., on Thursday. The application process is now closed for tickets to his speech at Invesco accepting the Democratic presidential nomination. (Alex Brandon, The Associated Press )


Democratic National Convention

Seats for Obama's speech snapped up in a day

The Democrat's campaign receives more than 60,000 applications in 24 hours.

By Chuck Plunkett
The Denver Post

Article Last Updated: 08/08/2008 01:42:31 AM MDT

Colorado's tickets to see Barack Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High were more than spoken for within about 24 hours, officials said, and the application process closed Thursday for all but those willing to be put on a waiting list.

Obama's campaign set aside for Colorado half of the more than 60,000 seats available to the public for the final night of the Democratic National Convention. It turns out the battleground state could have filled the stadium, as the campaign ended applications after collecting more than 60,000 Thursday afternoon.

"This incredible response and excitement shows that there is a huge appetite for change in Colorado," Anne Filipic, the general election director for the Campaign for Change, said in a statement.

The demand for the credentials was so great that phone lines were jammed much of the day.

Callers got an array of messages that suggested the lines weren't functioning. A spokesman for the campaign insisted the hotline number was good but that volunteers couldn't keep up with demand.


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I'm not one of them but I'll be there in spirit with a little help from our big screen tv!!

I hope and pray this will seal the deal for the Dems and we'll be armed and ready to seal the deal with McLame- right under da bus he'll go!

Been trying the NC number for a day and a half, nothing but an answering machine and no return call.

I am going to be out there tabling for some of the groups I am involved with and working with PDA at Progressive Central so I already had my plane ticket and hotel room but we won't find out until next week who gets NC's alotment of tickets.

I would have gone if I'd been inside the US this summer.

Woohoo, great news.

:kick:

:cry: They wanted proof of hotel/flight arrangements already... um, why would I have that ready unless I'm sure I have a ticket? :shrug: :-(

It's too bad. But at least, like us you'll be able to watch in the comfort of your own home hooping and hollering with joy.

like stones, Van Halen, Metallica, or Green Day I ordered mine before I posted it up on DU. Not to be selfish but, knowing demand would be so high I had to act first.

Take heart as the republicans are seething at the demand...
AS an election boils down to a popularity contest, the republicans are reduced to complaining about how POPULAR OBAMA is...:rofl:

like popularity is somehow a bad thing in politics.:rofl: