O-Blog on Caffeine

By Anonymous -
Keep the coffee pots on and your eyes wide open for all the action at Blog for America as the Sleepless Summer Tour is now in full swing! After an amazing kick-off rally with 4,500 in Falls Church, Virginia the campaign has just arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to a crowd of 800! According to O-blog reports, Dean said to the crowd: "I got off the plane, and I could not believe that on a night that the Green Bay Packers were playing, 800 people turned out for a rally." The crowd went wild!

UPDATE: 450 rally in Boise for Dean! Click here for all the O-blog posts from the Sleepless Summer Tour!

UPDATE: Dean National Victor Henzi just sent us a link to some great, up close and personal, photos of Howard Dean from the Milwaukee Rally! Thanks, Victor!

UPDATE: What a crowd! 5,000 (revised estimate from 4,000) rally in Portland for Dean! Dean just said on the Webcast: "Hi to everybody on the Web! Say Hi to Portland!" Kissing hands and shaking babies! Woohoo!

UPDATE:15,000 People in Seattle! 15,000! Can you believe that? And the bat just passed a cool 1/2 mil! Anna's first reports are on the O-blog now - check 'em out!



Our own Anna Private will be guest-blogging on the O-blog during the Texas and Seattle legs of the tour, and bringing us exclusives right here at Dean Nation! It's gonna be a fun few days -- and the bat keeps going up. Stay tuned!

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