Reply #39: Wow! Read this report from an NBC reporter who was there... [View All]

The night before...

Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:02 AM by Mark Murray

From NBC/NJ's Aswini Anburajan


Since I've been here reporting in Indiana, there's been a lot of talk about 1968 -- the last time it seemed that the votes the state would cast on Election Day would "count."

Last night, in the heavy, almost summer-like air at dusk, was the first time that I actually felt a sense of history. Voters lined up down more than five avenue blocks to get in to see Obama speak, and these were the ones that didn't have tickets to get into the event. Vendors were hawking buttons and T-shirts that read "Change" and "Hope, "with the candidate's face emblazoned on the backs of shirts and cars and trucks slowed down to see what the commotion was about.

The monuments were lit up, and gospel music rose up from the speakers and carried through the air. Rep. Andre Carson, an Obama supporter, spoke to the crowd as it waited hours for Obama to show up. And standing behind the flag and building that could have looked like the Jefferson Monument, you could imagine what it must have been like when those three syllable titans, MLK, RFK, were carrying a message that caught people's minds and lifted their hearts. It was breathtaking.

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