STEPHANIE REDD
DAYTONA TIMES

Though not as big as Invesco Field in Denver, Col., Bethune-Cookman University’s Performing Arts Center, nonetheless, contained a similar air of excitement as Sen. Barack Obama supporters packed in the 2,500-seat venue for an intimate rally date with the Democratic presidential nominee last Saturday at the “Women for the Change We Need” event.

The momentum gathered from crowd-induced “Yes We Can” chants and reincarnated football cheers permeated the forum hall from the minute attendees took their seats, and was only intensified with the Rev. Corwin Lasenby’s resonant invocation. Florida State Representative for District 27 Joyce Cusack, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius helped further invigorate the crowd, wiTheach official stating her case for Obama’s presidency.

Ladies first
As the rally’s name suggests, women were the primary focus on the event’s agenda as well as Obama’s.