OBAMA UPDATE! Congressman Earl Blumenauer is up, telling the loud crowd how excited he is that Oregon’s primary “matters for the first time in 40 years!”

Before Bluemenauer got up on stage, the crowd started chanting “Obama! Obama!” Listen to ‘em go crazy here here.

We’re “turning the page on one of the saddest chapters in American history, to a new page with President Barack Obama,” Blumenauer says. “Before he was a United States Senator even, I knew this guy was special.”

Blumenauer says he’s never seen anything like this Obama movement. In Arizona on their primary night, the Obama and Clinton parties were in the same hotel, he says. “The Obama party was three times bigger, and ten times more energetic. And people were focused on where we need to go next. And where we need to go next is to get organized here. Anyone who knows someone in Pennsylvania, you need to call or text!”

Listen to Blumenauer’s whole speech, preceded by a duo of volunteers rallying up the crowd.

We’re technically two minutes from show time, but the coliseum isn’t quite full—more like 90% full. But the crowd that’s in here has started doing the wave!