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Where are all the news media photographs of the big Madison crowd that Obama harangued last night?

I thought the University of Wisconsin was a major photo-op. Where are the photos ? vistas of hopeful, youthful faces? There's a tiny thumbnail here in the NYT. Help me find some pictures or I'm going with the theory ? offered by those who looked at my pictures ? that the crowd was ? as all those news media people loved to say about the Tea Party rallies ? overwhelmingly white.

My pictures were taken on Bascom Hill and the Memorial Union Terrace ? overflow areas with piped in sound/video. I did not go through security and into the Library Mall area where the President could be seen in person, and I thought we were going to get some grand wide-angle shots of the President and his enthusiasts.

ADDED: Here's the vista in the Cap Times. "Overwhelmingly" is not the right adverb. It's too much of an understatement. (Thanks to former law student, in the comments, for pointing me there.)

Full post as published by Althouse on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).