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

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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