Obama Rally in KC

I went to the KC rally for Obama on Saturday which was very exciting. We arrived there at around 3:30 and pretty easily got through the security gates and into the field that had been cordoned off. The crowd got pretty thick within minutes so we sat on the grass (there was no way to move one way or another so thankfully I didn't have to go to the bathroom) for several hours as we waited. He arrived around 6 which was preceded by local politicians like Kathleen Sebelius and Emmanuel Cleaver giving speeches.
There were a ton of secret service snipers around on the surrounding buildings and several helicopters circling the event.
On the picture above I've put an arrow pretty near where I was standing. I was about 50 feet away from the stage. I'm pretty sure it's fairly accurate because there is a little boy in the picture down and to the left that was sitting on his fathers shoulders for parts of the speech, completely obscuring everyone in my general vicinities view. Needless to say, we weren't pleased with the little kid.
Obama's speech was a rendition of several other recent speeches with bits about KC and MO thrown in. He briefly mentioned that he met the KC Chiefs head coach which got a round of boos from the crowd. Poor Herm. It was cool to feel the attention of the crowd, which seemed to be really listening and very calm. The whole thing had a feeling of a gospel event. There were no shouts of "kill him" in reference to McCain. Generally everyone was upbeat and orderly.
I was surprised at the general population of the crowd. I'd say at least 3/4 of the people were black and the other 1/4 were young people in their 20s and 30s. There were a lot of families. I don't know if it was because the rally was in KC (which is more racially diverse than the surrounding countryside) or if Obama has just incited massive interest and support from the black community. Unsurprisingly not a lot of white middle class people in their 50s and 60s showed up.
According to the news 100,000 people went to his rally in St. Louis (earlier that afternoon) and around 75,000 people from KC went to the rally.