TPM Reader PR looks out his window ...

I'm looking out my downtown Austin office window at Auditorium Shores where a huge crowd has been growing since the gates opened at noon to see Sen. Barack Obama speak. It's been raining lightly now for the better part of an hour and the crowd shows no signs of letting up. On line ticket requests totaled about 16,000 and the park looks pretty full right now. They say the capacity for the park (which holds the statue of Stevie Ray Vaughan) is 20,000. I know Austin is the bluest dot in a really, really red state, but this turnout in this weather (even here) is amazing.

He's hot. There's no denying it.