The crowd in Denver

Another enormous crowd out West today, running up the Capitol steps and covering all of the long Civic Center Park. A local police official cited by the Obama campaign put the crowd count at more than 100,000.

Crowd counts don't decide elections, though it's worth noting that these are bigger crowds than Kerry was getting this time four years ago.

UPDATE: The Denver Post suggests a smaller number — some 35,000 in the park, and several thousand more in the side streets.