The Scene at Mile High Stadium

2:10 p.m. Volunteers having trouble recruiting people to use phone bank at Invesco.
2:00 p.m. Mexicana For Obama" reads the message on towering red-and-white hat worn by Washington state delegate Antonia Gonzalez at Denver's stadium. She says she's confident "change" includes an immigration system fix so that raids no longer break up immigrant families.
1:59 p.m. Phone-banking for Obama inside Invesco gates is off-the-hook, with drawing to get on the field.
1:56 p.m. Parking lot at Invesco looks like an RV and satellite trade show.
1:53 p.m. Lakewood Police Officer Ryan McKone watching crowd atop steps at Denver's stadium: "Everything's good, real peaceful. Protesters are following what they said they would do."

More at the Denver Post.

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Here's the field

Obama Shoots Hoops Practices Speech

Painting by Phil Fung
Scenes from Denver from the Denver Post

AP: He put finishing touches on his speech Thursday morning, but also found time to shoot some hoops on a basketball court at the Denver Athletic Club.

He also spoke to a luncheon for female Illinois delegates. "I had this speech tonight. I wanted to practice it out on you guys. See if it worked on a friendly audience," Obama joked. He didn't actually give the speech.

"I haven't forgotten where I came from," he added. "It's because of all of you that Michelle and I have this great honor of helping to lead the party and win back this White House."

Aides said his address accepting the Democratic presidential nomination would be a "direct conversation" with Americans on what's at stake and the risks of putting another Republican in the White House.

A look at how the scene at the Mile High stadium is shaping up.