Obama giving a stump speech on the lawn just down from my office.
Good turnout, good weather, good speech.
Had to bail before the end, very intense crowd - Sen Casey, the PSU quarterback and Jay and Sue Paterno in attendance.
Standard speech, but he really does give amazingly good speeches, easily best I have heard, including some very good Euro pols.
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Any indication if he'd be positive/neutral/negative for science funding?
Positive overall, but some areas of science would be cut, as I understand it.
His campaign web site has a lot of detailed policy proposals, not quite Hillary level detail, but close.
Speech was standard stump speech with updates and local colour. Missed the last 15 mins or so.
Astonishing crowd, estimated at ~ 20,000 - lines for 3+ hours to get into screened inner area.
Very, very good speaker; good on content to.