After the caucus, we decided to head into town to what was looking to be the big event of the evening - the Obama rally in Hyvee Hall - a bib convention room in Des Moines. While waiting they had bid screens showing the CNN results. By now they had called Obama and Huckabee the winners. They played Edwards speech but then drowned out the Clinton speech with a marching band. There must have been 3000 people there by the time Obama took the podium at 11. He gave an exhilarating speech, calling this moment historic and predicting that he will win in "New Hampshire and beyond" (no scream). Parts of it reworked the stump speech we heard yesterday, but a lot of it was new and inspiring, though perhaps because of this he was reading from a teleprompter. He continues to push his approach that we might call post-partisan - we are not red and blue states but the United States of America. Edwards speech had all the same stories as yesterday, though a lot less "fight", he also took his finish as a victory. We didn't hear any of the others.
Obama Victory Speech 1:
Obama Victory Speech 2:
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