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The Mile High mistake?
Will Obama's decision to give his acceptance speech before 75,000 at Denver's Invesco Field -- a decision made before Democrats realized that the GOP's main slam on their candidate would be that he has a Messiah complex -- give the Republicans a boatload of new ammunition to blast the Illinois senator as a "worldwide celebrity."
Or will millions of voters capture the excitement of an electrifying moment?
That's the topic of my article in today's Daily News:
The Politico Web site reported last night that senior Democratic officials are nervous about the stadium plan, which was decided before the GOP began attacking Obama as a narcissistic celebrity.
"We already know he is a rock star; we already know he can bring 85,000 people together in a stadium," Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen told the Web site. "He has done it multiple times. He needs to talk to people who haven't made up their minds yet."
G. Terry Madonna, a pollster at Franklin & Marshall College, acknowledged that there's a big risk for Obama in shifting his speech from the Pepsi Center, where the rest of the convention was held. But he said there's also a huge potential upside.
"The plus side is that he'll be outside at an event with [75,000] people, and it will be an electric atmosphere," said Madonna, who said it could seem comparable to a Super Bowl for those who aren't yet focused on the White House race.
Which will it be? Obviously, some it depends on what he actually says, and some of it will depend on how it's all spun in the media -- and you know how well that turns out for the Dems.