Under the Gateway to the West, the St. Louis arch, Barack Obama addressed an estimated 100,000 people in the Show Me State just 17 days before the general election – his biggest rally to date in the United States.
The candidate, who accepted his party’s nomination in front of 80,000 in Denver, looked out to the sea of people and simply said, “What a spectacular sight. All I can say is wow.”
While he acknowledged he thought “the winds of change are blowing all across America,” he cautioned, “Democrats have a way of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.”