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August 30, 2008
Posted: 750 GMT
ATLANTA, Georgia - As a crowd of some 80,000 people listened to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's acceptance speech Thursday night at Invesco Field in Denver, hundreds more joined CNN to watch it all unfold thousands of miles away in the city that never sleeps - New York City.
An unconventional convention party in New York's Times Square.
It was a convention viewing party in Times Square that was anything but conventional. It definitely stopped some traffic-both pedestrian and the four-wheeled sort. CNN's Jim Acosta reported that he saw taxi cabs stopped in the intersection with passengers sticking their heads out of windows just to catch a glimpse of Obama's speech on CNN's big screen. For a city accustomed to elaborately staged Broadway shows, it was a simple yet unconventional street performance. ... one that also held political and historical significance in the United States. Posted by: CNN Producer, Kathleen Saal |
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