Matthew Mosk of washingtonpost.com reports:

PORTLAND, Ore. — Sen. Barack Obama has seen his share of large crowds over the last 15 months, but his campaign said they have not approached the numbers gathered along the waterfront in Portland..

The campaign, citing figures from Duane Bray, battalion chief of Portland Fire & Rescue, estimated that 75,000 people watched him speak.

The scene suggested that this was not an exaggeration. The sea of heads stretched for half a mile along the grassy embankment, while others watched from kayaks and power boats bobbing on the Willamette River. More hugged the rails of the steel bridge that stretches across the water and crowds even watched from jetties on the opposite shore.

From The Portland Tribune: Obama stirs huge crowd with call for ‘new kind of politics.’ — Democrat hammers familiar themes as Waterfront Park filled with supporters in the sun….. The rock-star candidate was greeted by a rock arena-sized crowd Sunday at Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park….[more]

Obama supporters in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland on Sunday.

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