Record Attendancefor Obama Rally

During in speech at Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado, Obama compared McCain to Bush.

The Democratic candidate drew more than 100,000 people in Colorado nine days before Election Day.

At the end of August, Obama was nominated as the Democratic candidate for the presidential election before 84,000 folks in Denver, Colorado. But for his return to Colorado on Sunday, Obama, who leads in polls nine days before the election, came back and broke a new record, gathering a crowd of over 100,000 people. The place was overcrowded and there were even more people than in Saint Louis, Missouri in early October, where the police said the meeting had totaled 100,000 people.

During his speech the senator from Illinois countered McCain’s words. The latter had said that he and George W. Bush “shared the same Republican” earlier that morning on NBC.

“I guess that was John McCain finally giving us a little straight talk, and owning up to the fact that he and George Bush actually have a whole lot in common,” Obama said.

“For eight years, we’ve seen the Bush-McCain philosophy put our country on the wrong track, and we cannot have another four years that look just like the last eight. It’s time for change in Washington, and that’s why I’m running for President of the United States.”

“Well, we know what the Bush-McCain philosophy looks like. It’s a philosophy that says we should give more and more to folks at the top and hope that it trickles down.”

This weekend, after Nevada and New Mexico, Colorado was the last stop for the Democratic candidate in the states won by Bush in 2004, but where he is ahead in polls. Obama would be sure to be elected president if he won the states that voted Kerry in 2004 in addition to those three Republican states.

The Democratic candidate is to make a speech in Ohio, a decisive state in the election, on Monday. His intention: to sum up the campaign; its guideline: asserting that his presidential opponent, John McCain, has been campaigning for 21 months and has yet to tell voters how he would differ with the unpopular economic policy of George Bush.