More than 84,000 people have jammed into Invesco Field at Mile High stadium to hear Barack Obama’s historic acceptance speech, city officials say.

Nancy Kuhn of Denver’s public works department says the figure is based on the number of credentials that were scanned as delegates, individuals and news media entered the football stadium where Obama was accepting the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night.

The stadium normally holds 76,125 people, but additional seats were placed on the football field where the Denver Broncos play.

 Three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Republican voters across the country appear uninspired by their field of presidential candidates, with a vast majority saying they have not made a final decision about whom to support, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

Not one of the Republican candidates is viewed favorably by even half the Republican electorate, the poll found. And in a sign of the fluidity of the race, former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, who barely registered in early polls several months ago, is now locked in a tight contest nationally with Rudolph W. Giuliani and Mitt Romney.

By contrast, Democrats are happier with their field and more settled in their decisions. For all the problems Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to be having holding off her rivals in Iowa and New Hampshire, she remains strong nationally, the poll found. Even after what her aides acknowledge have been two of the roughest months of her candidacy, she is viewed by Democrats as a far more electable presidential nominee than either Senator Barack Obama or John Edwards.

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Bergen County became a slightly darker shade of blue this afternoon when the four Lyndhurst Town Commissioners, the city’s mayor, Richard DiLascio, and 24 of 30 Lyndhurst GOP Committee members, who were part of the Bergen County Republican Organization, switched their party affiliation from Republican to Democratic.

“It’s unprecedented and historic that an entire governing body changes its party affiliation in a single day,” Bergen County Democratic Organization Chairman Joseph A. Ferriero told NJpols. “Lyndhurst has traditionally been a Republican stronghold in south Bergen [County] and the fact that every council member, the mayor, 65 percent of their county committee, and numerous other rank-and-file members switched parties further strengthens the Democratic Party at the county and state level.”

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