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In news that will surprise no one, The Swamp is reporting that all the tickets for Obama's election night event in Grant Park have been snapped up. A message on the wait-list website reads "Thanks for your interest. There are no remaining tickets for this event." Sorry, Charlie. So what if you still want to be there? Unticketed folks are going to have to hang out around the perimeter and probably won't be able to see much of anything, unless they set up some big-ass TV screens. Time to dig out that old transistor radio and tune into NPR.
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Note that each ticket holder is allowed to bring one guest. So you could hang around the gate looking for people without guests to bring in as well.
let's be honest here, do you really think some hipster in a greenpeace t-shirt is going to be able to collect tickets and hold a crowd of 500,000+ at bay? Get real, it's going to be Obama in some sort of 'Pope-mobile' surrounded by the secret service, while the rest of us (tickets/or not) hang out in the wild-wild-west.
Even if the Union thugs that usually show up to these things to make sure everybody is cheering for the home team come out, the numbers are just too big.
I havent heard back from the Democratic Party yet, but supposedly i have a ticket. And with it i think it might be safe to bring:
flask of bushmills
table leg
brass knuckles
photocopies of those tickets to sell (if they were gullible enough to vote for the messiah, they're used to not looking to close to what they're buying).
I didnt vote for either candidate, but this is going to be history, whether a race riot or love fest.....im not going to miss it!
Dude, tickets were gone in less than an hour yesterday. I didn't stand a chance as my fellow employees snatched them up while I was in a meeting.
I like the idea of getting together with someone who doesn't have a guest and using their spare entry. I'm on the wait list, but I can't see how I'll ever get a ticket unless they move it to soldier field.