This Is What 100,000 Looks Like

Barack Obama draws record U.S. crowd
today in St. Louis, Mo.

Missouri is a hotly contested state, currently polling, according to RCP, polling +2.5 for Obama. Missouri has been the "bellwether" state in the US elections; choosing the winning candidate in every election since 1960. (Since 1904, the state's only miss was in 1956).