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Obama tix "sell out" by 11am

by: Jay Stevens

Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 12:32:40 PM MDT

If you didn't get your tickets to Saturday's Obama rally, you are out of luck:

Campaign officials said they were passing out 1,500 tickets at Obama's new Front Street office, plus another 6,000 via the Internet for his speech at the University of Montana's Adams Center.
Obama communications director Matt Chandler said the electronic tickets were gone by 10 a.m. Thursday, while the Missoula office handed out its last ticket at 11 a.m.

The number of tickets handed out are disputed; Adams Center staff say, with the auxiliary gym open, the venue can hold 10K.

(Seating is general admission, so if you did get a ticket, arrive early if you want a good seat.)

Given that Obama's appearance was announced only last night, it's astonishing that tickets disappeared so rapidly. While the Missoula crowd probably won't match Boise's 10K+, it's not because of a lack of effort from Missoulians.

Jay Stevens :: Obama tix "sell out" by 11am

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Obama tix "sell out" by 11am | 15 comments

I signed up for one last night (0.00 / 0)

on the web site, and have not received a reply via email yet. Anybody else get an email reply? Or are they bit-bucketing those of us with an entry in a secret government database?

by: JC @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 13:42:53 PM CDT

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I got mine right away (0.00 / 0)

As did several friends.

by: Mathello @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 13:54:20 PM CDT

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It took a few minutes (0.00 / 0)

but I got my ticket last night when I signed up, as well.

by: Anna @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 15:12:27 PM CDT

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NOPE! No............. (0.00 / 0)

COATTAILS HERE! Who's kidding whom? Let's see Hillybilly Billy and his wild willy and Billary draw THAT kinda response anywhere in Montana! Ain't gonna happen!

Obama offers REAL hope to the American people of all stripes! Billary offers nothing but Liebermania! Billary likes to say that she is another Rocky. What a joke! She's another Tex Cobb, who was brutalized by Larry Holmes but still mangaed to go the distance. Like Tex Cobb, Hilly's got "one of the greatest chins of all time"! Howard Cosell was so horrified after that fight, that he vowed to never cover another fight again! It's PAINFUL to watch Billary get annihilated! Someone should tell her it's over.

Obama will sweep the Dems back into power, and everyone knows it. Hilly needs to stop being a punching bag. A great chin just ain't what we need right now!

by: Larry Kralj, Environmental Rangers! @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 14:19:24 PM CDT

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actually... (0.00 / 0)

...we might just see a head-to-head matchup on Sunday, when rumors have Hillary Clinton appearing at the Adams Center.

by: Jay Stevens @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 15:07:47 PM CDT

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I'm takin' bets on who draws the biggest crowd! (0.00 / 0)

In fact, I'm givin' odds! Any takers?

by: Larry Kralj, Environmental Rangers! @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 15:15:48 PM CDT

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I'll take that... (0.00 / 0)

If Bill can pack him in Hill is a cinch.

by: Mathello @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 15:20:42 PM CDT

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oops (0.00 / 0)

"em" not "him" thats dirty.

by: Mathello @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 15:21:10 PM CDT

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I'm still holding out hope (0.00 / 0)

for a Clinton appearance, though it seems like the window of time in which they could announce and organize something like that is shrinking.

by: Anna @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 23:56:42 PM CDT

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Why? (0.00 / 0)

Why? She's done. She hasn't a prayer. Hell, even Jimmy Carter's goin' for Obama!

by: Larry Kralj, Environmental Rangers! @ Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 00:03:34 AM CDT

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It ain't junk (0.00 / 0)

A quick note to those who went online for Missoula Obama tickets and felt they were dissed -- check your junk mail. I know a couple folks who thought they didn't get an email back from the Obama campaign for tickets and then found them in their junk mail. Some spam filters worked a little too well this time.

by: pete talbot @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 17:23:05 PM CDT

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I had it sent to my gmail acount. (0.00 / 0)

And all of the other Obama emails they send me show up just fine. My latent paranoia tells me that just because I didn't get my Obama ticket, that my country is watching me. ;-)

by: JC @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 17:25:33 PM CDT

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I haven't seen..... (0.00 / 0)

democrats this excited and giddy for quite some time. I guess they've finally found the "ham" to go along with their free government cheese.

by: squid @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 20:15:33 PM CDT

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Yet isn't it funny (0.00 / 0)

All the big porkers are Republicans. The worst offenders are all R. Look at the Montana blogs, spineless wonder. The only one's begging for earmarks are the righties. Perhaps you're trolling the wrong websites ...

by: Wulfgar @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 21:21:18 PM CDT

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"Let them eat cheese" (0.00 / 0)

Reaganomics at its best.

Actually, government cheese was just another way for Reagan to subsidize agribusiness, accelerating the loss of the small family farm.

And we can depend on agribusiness to feed the likes of squid a bunch of sh**.

by: JC @ Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 00:46:51 AM CDT

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