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Dial D for Denver: The Democratic Convention by the Numbers

By Alexis Matsui on August 24, 2008

5: Minimum number of miles of Denver’s Interstate 25 scheduled to be shut down during Obama’s Thursday speech at Invesco Field

Democratic National Convention floor

76,000: Seats at Invesco Field

19: Months spent by the Democratic National Convention Committee preparing for the convention

30: Number of community service projects where more than 1,000 delegates and Michelle Obama will volunteer on Wednesday’s “Delegate Service Day”

45: Acres on which the Pepsi Center is built

120: Minimum number of bloggers credentialed to cover the convention

130: Countries sending journalists to the cover the convention

400: Maximum number of people who can be detained at “holding pens” designed to corral disruptive protesters

1908: The last time Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention

100: Hotels hosting convention delegates, visitors and media

17,000: Hotel rooms booked for the convention

21,000: Convention volunteers

46,000,000: Dollars the host committee is required to raise for the convention

50,000,000: Dollars given to the convention by the federal government for security

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  • Posted:
    09/12/08 at
    10:18 PM
    noone : Where's the donation given to the DNC by AT&T? Or the number of bags given out with a massive AT&T logo on them? The number of suites rented out by 'private parties'? The number of assassination plots stolen from Whitney Houston movies?
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