David Plouffe on crowd size: Were happy to have that debate Obama senior adviser David Plouffe says the campaign is pleased with the turnout at its Saturday afternoon event at Ohio State University, where the 14,000-strong crowd fell short of the stadiums capacity of 18,300. Oh yeah, Plouffe told pool reporter Amie Parnes of The Hill when asked after arriving in Richmond, Va., whether the campaign was satisfied with the crowd size earlier Saturday in Columbus. He added that if Mitt Romneys campaign wanted to have a debate about crowd size, were happy to have that debate. Obama campaign officials had earlier said they expected an overflow crowd at the event. Despite falling short of expectations, the crowd at Obamas Ohio State University event was still many times larger than Romneys biggest crowd this year so far. Romney has drawn crowds of several thousand people during the GOP primary race, but none topping 10,000. On Twitter on Saturday, campaign operatives jousted over the visuals of the Ohio rally. View from floor during @BarackObama speech. Not the overflow crowd he promised, tweeted Romney spokesman Ryan Williams. Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse fired back with a photo of Romneys February economic speech in Detroit, where 1,200 people turned out for an event in a stadium that seats 65,000. Oh please, Woodhouse tweeted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...e-that-debate/2012/05/05/gIQAYLc83T_blog.html I'm not sure if Mitt knows this yet ... but ... he is not popular ...
Well everyone pretty much knows that they won't have much longer to see Obama in the role of President so they are turning out to catch a last glimpse and say they were there. They have like 8 years to see Romney so there's no rush for that.
Well really...I don't get the point of this thread. So Obama had a smaller than expected but still a large turnout. I have to ask, "so what?" There are many factors that could go into this such as the community support for Obama, the advertising...hes a sitting President...I just am not seeing a distinction of why this is relevant to anything. I'm sure if Romney and the GOP wanted to, they could arrange a crowd of 50,000 but once again, Why? The debates haven't even started yet, there is still a lot of time for Romney or Obama to screw up or do something great....It's just too early to draw anything from crowd size at events.
Agreed. But think of it from the Obamabot point of view: what else could they possibly crow about other than "it was a big crowd, but not a sellout crowd"? Perhaps they could go with the angle "we paid 20K to show up, but our employment policies are going so smoothly that only 14,000 of them remain unemployed and could actually show up"?
Political rallies are dangerous things. The 'leaders' whipping up the faithfull into a frenzy. Who wait with awe on every word from their chosen obsession. It could easily turn into a riot if the 'leader' plays with the idea of chaos. "Lock and load my children, we are going looting"
Not me ... when you have enough Horse-Power, you bother looking back, unless you're driving in reverse.
Or where you're taking the Picture from ... I don't know about you, but I always point my Camera towards the ACTION!
