More than 3,000 people, both old and young, Indiana residents and people from across the ocean, attended Sen. Barack Obama's speech Saturday at Ball State University.
William Egbuna flew in from London to see Obama. A lot of people in the United Kingdom support Obama, Egbuna said.
"One of the things is the moral standing of the U.S. and the rest of the world," Egbuna said. "I think he will do a great job for it. And that hope and the change - the message, basically, that he presents - it's something very inspiring for a lot of people."
Sophomore architecture major Chris Harrison said Obama's ideas of investing in alternative energy sources appeals to him and he thinks Obama is a very good candidate, but he has not decided if he wants to vote Democrat or Republican.
"I just thought this was a good opportunity to see what Obama is advocating, what he wants to do and just really get first-hand experience of what his ideas are," Harrison said.
Sophomore architecture major Zach Wininger said he came to watch Obama's speech because he was still deciding who he wanted to vote for in November.
"I went to see Chelsea and Hillary, but I wanted some perspective, wanted to give everyone a chance," he said.
Stephen Baker, a 10-year-old from Anderson asked Obama what children can do to affect the government.
His mother, Mary Baker-Boudissa, the assistant director for the Office of Charter School Research at Ball State, said Stephen shows strong support for Obama and wants to let people know how he feels about the issues that affect him.
"He can always make his own choice, but there's something about Barack Obama that really speaks to a lot of young people, and [Stephen] is no different," Baker-Boudissa said. "He's 10. He knows that something needs to change. Even if you don't want your kids to know about problems in the world, there's still a trickle down effect."
Polly Foxx, a 40-year-old mother from Arcadia, said Obama's platform is an emotional one for her. The single mother of a 9-year-old boy with autism said she wants to see the candidates' answers about health care and education for his sake.
"I am an educator, and I want to see more mainstreaming and inclusion in schools," she said. "We have to have compassion, we have to have tolerance."
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