Well, hopefully reporters in attendance will have passed some kind of intelligence test by then. No?

I was hoping for this.

Can you imagine a true Obama wave in the stadium?

I love it! 76,000 fans at mile high stadium changting. It will be great TV.

Actually it is not across Denver... DemConWatch.com says it well:

Invesco Field at Mile High, the home of the Denver Broncos, can seat 75,000 people. It's just a short walk under I-25 from the Pepsi Center and would be a part of the rumored one-mile square radius security zone.

I don't buy this rumor. If they were actually planning to do this - wouldn't it be a much bigger spectacle if they surprised everyone with it? The fact that anyone knows about it makes it sound made up. Not that I wouldn't put it past them to do it. :)

Just get ready for comparisons from the right to the Nuremburg Rallies...

The beauty, however, is that it will really make it look like Obama is the winner -- and people like voting for the winner.

I think this is a great idea. It allows more people to participate. If there was a venue that held three times that many people, it would fill too and even more people could be allowed to be involved. This is a candidate, a campaign and a presidency that is of, by and for the people. And, by the way, it would be a pretty good news punch just before the republican convention. McCain couldn't fill half that many seats if the people in them weren't actually delegates to the convention. A little dancin' in the streets is good for people after a hard fight and before the next part of the battle.

For those of you too young to remember, in 1960 JFK gave his acceptance speech outdoors in the L.A. Colisseum at the end of a convention held next door in the then new Sports Arena.

The weather in Denver is perfect. In late Summer it's hot and dry during the day, then it usually sprinkles for about five minutes at cocktail hour, cooling everything off. The rest of the evening is comfortable and dry. Obama could model his acceptance after the opening ceremony of the Olympic games, where a sea of fans all hold a light stick etc.

sounds like another great idea from the Obama campaign and I love it. I, for one, have not forgotten that he had a huge outdoor crowd in Oregon during the primaries. If this is egomania, why is the place going to be packed? Let's party! Let the whiners in the repuglican party moan and piss. Just cause no one wants to look at McSame any more than they have to...

Well, I guess that seals it. He will be doing it in the stadium. I didn't know that about kennedy. The amazing thing about the stadium is that it will be filled and then there were will be tens of thousand in the streets around the stadium. It will be huge. Good move on obama's part. Very symbolic.

Please note: That's 76,000 in the STANDS. With the field open to the crowd, assuming 2 square feet per standee, the crowd could top out at about 105,000.

Kinda like Hillary Clinton's exasperated statement:

"Enough of the speeches and the big rallies"

Typical flip-flop. First Obama says he's going to accept in a convention center, but now, for political expediency, he's talking about speaking in a stadium. So very Muslim of him.

The problem with presidential conventions is that they are too expensive, they're restricted to delegates, party leaders, high-profile donors and not citizens. What a superb idea! because Barack Obama is such a unique and historic candidate, its important that all Americans get the chance to witness history.

Here's another historical note to go with the anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech:

The last president to accept a major party nomination outdoors was John F. Kennedy. It was at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. Picture and audio can be found here http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfk1960dnc.htm

Can you imagine this being discussed and (perhaps) Obama being introduced by Caroline Kennedy? The anchors would be going wild and I think a good portion of Americans would be tearing up before he even started to speak.

Let people bitch. The envious always do.

McCain couldn't fill the first three rows of Invesco. But our candidate? The place holds 75,000 and they'll STILL be turning people away.

The more the merrier. Excellent move.

gosh sounds like the crowds for american idol, oh, wait, nevermind, wrong extravaganza....

100,000 rapt, cheering, dreamily looking upon people with their hero, their manifestation of change we can be sated with orbs, it will make marvellous theatre...

this preoccupation with process and mass communication has nothing to do with any real issue, nor do i think we will get much on the issues in the acceptance speech, it will be well honed for the middle

lol, not to mention it would be the first time that stadium would be filled =]

Psychologically, this can help with the "bubba" vote, as well. I mean no disrespect, but those wary, not-so educated white guys who worry about his middle name mostly *love* football. And it fights the Harvard egghead/city-slicker/not-one-of-us image.

I also think this is brilliant for all the reasons indicated above, and the critics will negate anything and you can't worry about them. They'll be drinking bitter beer in the dark on election night either way.

B*tch at me all you want because I did support Hillary as the better candidate, but this "staging" is getting over the top. Too bad the man himself lately can't stand up for what he says he has previously. Outdoor arena like JFK...speech on the 45th anniv. of MLK... sorry but this is nothing more than symbolism overboard. And I don't care what anybody says, unless it was pre-assured and arranged that he was going to be the chosen nominee, why is his acceptance speech just happening to fall on such a special day? This was mentionned ages ago by his supporters that if he was the nominee when he would give his speech and how significant it would turn out to be. Sorry, but this whole campaign just reeks of a concerted effort to use symbolism and hyperbole and nothing but rhetoric. I still am waiting to find out who from the old guard in the Senate besides Kennedy and who hated Clinton enough to convince him to run when he said he himself wasn't qualified for the job.
And don't worry he is still better than McCain when it comes to election day and I will hold my nose but I don't have to like Obama for all his changes in pandering to get votes, especially this mushiness on withdrawing from Iraq.

Obama needs to get off the nuances on abortion, guns and troop withdrawl policy. The media destroys and distorts any message that is more than a five word slogan. They will Kerry-orize him in short order.

The "hope message" brought him the nomination. Americans, by increasing numbers, are feeling hopeless and powerless in the face of fuel costs, food costs, fires and floods, foreclosures and job losses. If he can give people hope that he will fight for a Marshall Plan Presidency to begin to restore the American Dream he will not be defeated. If he allows himself to get mired in policy details that will be distorted and used against him, the contest will be framed by the GOP and McCain will win despite everything. Obama should be the vision guy. Any thinking person knows that every policy, every Bill, every plan is compromised once elected. We don't need specifics that won't matter a year from now, we need a visionary to layout a whole new broad landscape for this country.

Too bad Leni Riefenstahl isn't available for the documentary.