At this moment, there is a massive line of people outside Invesco Field in Denver waiting to get in to the arena where Barack Obama will speak tonight. It’s difficult to say how many because the line is curled back and forth through parking lots and extends around several blocks but it is possibly half a mile long, three to five people thick and could contain 10,000 to 30,000 people or more. The stadium, meanwhile, is already at least half full.

Truckloads of water are being delivered to the individuals in line.

Florida delegates in a bus passing by the line on the way to Invesco Field called themselves amazed. “Nothing less than phenomenal,” said Terry Fields, of Jacksonville. State Sen. Frederica Wilson of Miami added, “This is what you call a new day in America.”

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