Barack the vote

Politics | Obama’s quick draw in the Wild West has Clinton on the run | Mark Bergin

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SEATTLE and DENVER— Maggie Everett, a language arts teacher at Seattle's Roosevelt High School, was hardly surprised to discover Feb. 8 that nearly half of her junior and senior students had cut class for the day. The five o'clock news confirmed her intuition as to where they wound up.

More than 20,000 people skipped school, work, and whatever else to attend a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at KeyArena, the city's NBA basketball facility. Only 18,000 made it inside to hear the Illinois senator, the leftover throng crowding around the building for some glimpse of the man who would bring change.

"When it was announced that Obama was coming to town, my kids were jumping up and down," Everett said the day after the rally as she registered to participate in her local caucus. "They are so fired up; it's really incredible."

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