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Standing room only for Obama

I wonder if the people who wore those “I Stand for Change” T-shirts to Barack Obama’s appearance at E.C. Glass High School realized how literal that slogan would become.

“We’ve been standing a lot,” laughed a woman behind me in line Wednesday afternoon. “We stood in line for tickets, and we’re standing in line now.”

And what a line. By the time the front doors to the high school opened and the multitude admitted 20 at a time, it stretched all the way to the intersection of Memorial and Oakley avenues.

Almost as impressive as the physical length of this adulation (or, at least, curiosity) for Obama, however, was the ethnic makeup. At E.C. Glass on Wednesday, the…

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