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Oprah-Obama South Carolina Event Moved To Football Stadium
Oprah Winfrey sure is a draw in South Carolina. After free tickets sold out for her event this weekend with Barack Obama at a venue seating 18,000, they've moved it to a football stadium that seats 80,000.
The rally is in three days, so we'll see how many seats the Obama campaign can fill in that time, although they've already been inviting people to sign up for a waiting list. Even if the place gets only half-filled, that would still mean 40,000 people showing up to see Oprah Winfrey — plus her favored candidate for president.
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Just FYI, no tickets are needed at the new venue.
December 6, 2007 9:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Derek is correct, the Obama campaign has requested that people who plan on coming RSVP through their website, but other htan that, its show up early, first-come-first-serve
December 6, 2007 9:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oprah is probably thinking that she should play South Carolina more often.
December 6, 2007 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
the only reason anyone would possibly come is to see Oprah. Who would want to see that LOSER Obama, who is a big poopiehead and has to wait his turn to be president or I'll tell the teacher.
OMG, did you see what mister poopiehead muslim wrote in cursive practice about being president? OMG I'm going to get Mark to tell everyone and they won't ever vote for that poopiehead.
December 6, 2007 10:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if Oprah will have 80,000 cars on hand.
More seriously, as many have pointed out, Oprah can get a lot of people to take a serious look at Obama, but Obama needs to make the actual case for his candidacy. So Oprah is doing her part, but the rest is up to Obama.
December 6, 2007 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
How can one sell out free tickets?
December 6, 2007 10:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
I guess if he was Prez, she could help him make policy decisions too. lol.
December 6, 2007 10:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
"I guess if he was Prez, she could help him make policy decisions too. lol."
Ha Ha, yeah! Maybe he should marry her and she should run and he could take his turn if he waits for the dynasty to be handed over to him HA HA....ah....er...
Scratch that. Forget I said that.
December 6, 2007 11:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
I know the idea is to make Obama look more presidential by putting him in the glow of a major celebrity. My impression though is that this kind of event will have Obama looking like Oprah's advance man and have everyone asking why Oprah doesn't run for president.
We'll see.
nrglaw
December 6, 2007 11:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2008__1/2008_presidential_election/south_carolina/election_2008_south_carolina_democratic_primary
December 6, 2007 11:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow! That is HUGE. I can't think of a comparable political event of anywhere near that size. Kerry's events with Springsteen at the end of the 2004 election were big, but I doubt any of them were that big.
It also looks great that they are having the event in the capital city of Columbia, at the college football stadium on the University of South Carolina campus. I'm sure they will get a ton of students, a ton of coverage, a ton of excitement, etc.
December 6, 2007 11:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
nrglaw,
It seems to me that is sort of like saying people wouldn't buy a book that Oprah recommends because they would instead ask why she didn't write her own book.
Again, though, I agree with those who suggest it will take a lot more than Oprah's recommendation to get people to actually vote for Obama--Obama will have to do that part for himself.
December 6, 2007 11:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
A sports venue. How fitting.
December 6, 2007 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
pacc,
I don't know if you noticed, but there is a notable lack of 80,000 seat opera houses in South Carolina.
December 6, 2007 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's that? The Diva O-Bomb-A getting down in the sports arena with some odnary po' folk. "Come on y'all. See the Illynoise cousins performin!"
December 6, 2007 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL! Anyone else hear that you have to sign a pledge to vote for Obama to get into one of these things? (Maybe not this one now though.) I couldn't help thinking that if he runs out of pledge forms, I'll bet I know where he could get a good deal on some loyalty oaths.
December 6, 2007 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
imagine...a sports event hosted by the Queen of Givaway.
If Obama has to have interference run to uneven the playing field during a primary it's pretty sad.
and if Oprah wants to run as president she should be honest.
December 6, 2007 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
pacc,
I'm sure the people of South Carolina will appreciate your characterization of them.
December 6, 2007 10:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fuck you and your unending spin, DTM.
Oprah is a fun escape for an hour a day, but she is not representative in her views. Folks will show up to see her just like they’ll pay two dimes to see the bearded lady at the State Fair in September.
While it may make good press, one fat lady from Chicago does not make a campaign.
December 6, 2007 11:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd have to bet that DTM is right (that makes three times by my count) in thinking there are probably a fairly large number of people in SC, some of whom very possibly could be Obama and/or Oprah fans, who neither shuck nor jive, occasionally sample cuisine other than cawn pone and pork chitlins and almost never marry their cousins or other close members of their own family. Why, I even hear there are large areas of the state that have electricity and indoor plumbing nowadays.
December 6, 2007 11:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
pacc,
I'm worried about you: so much anger and hate is not healthy.
Incidentally, you might note that I maintained from the beginning that while Oprah can help get people to an event like this to listen to Obama, Obama himself has to make the case for his candidacy. So I don't see how you are actually disagreeing with me on the substance of the issue.
CalD,
I'd ask you what the other two times were, but I suspect I am better off leaving it unsaid.
December 6, 2007 11:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
DTM,
Your an O-Bomb-A fluffer. Nothing more. Siss-boom-bah.
December 6, 2007 11:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
CalD,
If the black voters of So. Carolina are ignorant enough to fall for the O-Bomb-A brand of race baiting, then no one should be surprised when the rest of America - which is the overwhelming majority of America - turns a deaf ear to them. After all, if they prove themselves to be driven by nothing more than their ignorance and fears, then who cares about them? Not me.
December 7, 2007 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wikipedia states:
"Race baiting is the act of using racially derisive language, actions or other forms of communication, to anger, intimidate or incite a person or groups of people, or to make those persons behave in ways that are inimical to their personal or group interests."
Fortunately, pacc is not particularly good at it.
December 7, 2007 12:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
DTM,
A couple of weeks ago an ABC/WP poll came out of Iowa that had Obama ahead by a couple of points (the third of the season actually, but everyone seemed to think it was a first). This news was greeted by much ululation and general hyperventilating by Obama fans of course, but you were actually cautioning people that it was being over-hyped, that the race was essentially tied and that they should expect to see polls with different people in the "lead" due to the MoE. I counted that as two right things; one for media criticism and one for statistical analysis.
December 7, 2007 1:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
It doesn't matter. In the end he does not have the support of the party that he is seeking to represent. He may know how to speak, he may know what to say, but all I hear is the voice of inexperience. If he was running for high school president, he would be a shoe in.
December 8, 2007 4:20 AM | Reply | Permalink