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Barack Obama rocked the City of Brotherly Love, where 35,000 packed Independence Mall last night. The crowd chanted: We're fired up and ready to go!

Obama was introduced by Monique Sellers, an independent-turned-Democrat. Since January, more than 160,000 voters have switched their party registration to Democrat. Like Sellers, 60 percent of the newly-minted Democrats plan to vote for Obama.

Sellers said that she comes "from a long line of Republicans" but she switched her registration because she was "inspired" by Obama whom she described as "a candidate of change, a once in a generation person."

In the shadow of Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, Obama took the stage and declared:
We can declare independence from the say-anything, do-anything politics that's all about how to win and not why we should; that politics that exploits our differences instead of speaking to our common concerns and our common destinies as Americans.

I'm running to change the game in Washington. I'm not running to fit in. I'm running to change Washington.
While Philadelphia is "signed, sealed and delivered" for Obama, voters in the land of the "cling-ons" will keep Hillary Clinton "hanging on."

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