Over here on the west side things are pretty hoppin’ — Pct. 251 is packing ’em in at O’Henry Middle School. The word in the sweaty cafeteria is that it could take more than two hours for voters to sign in before the convention will even begin.
According to my completely unscientific crowd estimate — verified by two equally sweaty neighbors standing with me against a wall, pressed in next to a garbage can — about two-thirds of the roughly 300 voters wedged into the O’Henry caf were there for Obama.
This article appears in February 29 • 2008.