6:03 p.m., close to Hitt Street and Rollins Street Marc McKee just formed the back of the line, which had by then become a U-shaped mass reaching from the north end of Carnahan Quadrangle on Ninth Street. He is a graduate student at MU. The first question came out sounding too existential, too “why are [...]
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…Rien a faire… It’s 6:41 p.m. at Columbia Regional Airport. Do you know where Barack Obama is? I don’t. I’m told he’s left Virginia, and he’ll be arriving at the airport before he’s scheduled to speak on MU campus at 9:30. At least, that’s the plan. Sitting alone in the vacuous lobby, I tap my [...]
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Hello dear readers! Hayley here, typing away from the press area. Internet is spotty out here, but I will do my best to keep updating. Older material behind the cut. Jay Nixon up now, and he’s the one introducing Obama. The crowd is very excited now–Nixon is clearly popular with this crowd. Nixon said he [...]
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5:15 Wednesday Sen. Barack Obama is the first Democratic presidential nominee to visit Columbia on the campaign trail since Michael Dukakis made a minor visit in 1988. This visit will likely be a tad more memorable than that one. A dozen Obama volunteers concentrated on how best to cut letters out large pieces of white [...]
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Students and curious residents walking through Carnahan Quad this afternoon couldn’t help but gawk at the forklifts holding up speakers and the big, black box of a stage Obama will be standing on at 9:30 p.m. This is the biggest thing to hit Columbia since Chase Daniel. The rally is being set up amphitheater [...]
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It is noon and people already start to arrive for tonight’s Obama rally on MU campus. On MU Carnahan Quad, volunteers and staff for the Obama campaign are setting up everything for tonight.The first ones arrived at 9:15am this morning, and have been hired by the Obama staff to help for the rest of the [...]
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