Quite a contrast.

as we get pounded by the right wing corporate media every flippin' day. Thanks.

It must have been the weather

But it is now called Sports Authority at Mile High.

Also, I gotta point out two facts:

1) This was done after Obama was nominated, and this was his acceptance location, after the DNC convention at the Pepsi Center.
2) Romney attracted flies.

I'm stealing it.

Damn! they should fire whom ever suggested taking a stadium, bet they still have to pay the fees too.

Lets hope he was a Broncos fan!

Barack Obama isn't the only one who can fill a stadium. Republicans can fill a stadium, too!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=346909

What a sick manchild. We can never let a bush hold office again.

Love it!

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this is like comparing apples to oranges.

The picture of Barack was taken during the DNC Convention in Denver,
and this was actually his acceptance speech, which always draws the
most attendees, to celebrate his nomination.

The picture of Romney is dealing with a state primary, and is not
a convention.

A better picture for Obama would have been a picture during a primary
stop where the facility was packed. I know there are plenty of those
pictures around.

Granted, Obama is a rock star where Romney has to buy his friends!
Your point is well made.

I remember the feeling of pride when I saw those way back when. I knew he would win after seeing those photos of the crowds. And when he was in Berlin - OMG, what was it like 200,000 showed up! ?

That rally was a sea of white faces. Portland is pretty damn white demographically, and we're whiter than average because we have cloud cover much of the year.

In Seattle, Key arena was filled by @ 17,000 - 18,000 and overflow of thousands more stayed outside the arena.

I didn't make it to that, but some friends made it inside and others were among the crowd outside.

Up on surrounding buildings, across the street, behind the podium, on bridges.

Use these pictures instead to show the contrast.

No comparison.

WOW!

You don't have to compare it to anything to know it's pathetic. Romney rented a 65,000 seat stadium, his people said it sold out in 2 hours and then 1200 people showed up. That is beyond embarrassing. I mean it's right in the middle of the Michigan campaign and he's spending millions here, he could have bribed a few thousand homeless people with food and drink to at least save himself this humiliation.

Romney is toast in Michigan, he might have bought it for next Tuesday, but he has zero chance of carrying it in November.

Just like Gingrich, it's as though he went out of his way to seem as desirable as possible.


rocktivity

Why have a campaign appearance in a football stadium unless you can fill it up? A crowd of 1,200 would have looked huge at the Detroit Marriott -- or just about anywhere else. At Ford Field, it looks like a tiny group.

Wishful "if we build it, they will come" thinking?

he wasn't going to hand out tickets to "Hardcore Pawn" during that?

-summary execution, -indefinite detention, -PATRIOT Act, -Wall Street, -Big Insurance, -rich and pro-education and -Social Security candidate

that's where the enthusiasm came from

The epic fail will come when the Democrats 2008 picture is contrasted with Democrats 2012.

Ha ha ha. The joke's on us.

Of course, as I have been told here, repeatedly, by a vocal minority, is that DU is not representative of the real world, and that the things you've listed are only the pet issues of the idealistic and unreasonable Professional Leftists, and do not concern the nation at large.

So if I'm dissatisfied with Obama, I can withhold my vote in protest and it won't matter, 'cause the enthusiasm is so great, and Obama's sure to win. Right?

if it will make you feel better about the direction of our country.....
but know that for certain, you won't be doing this country any favors....

Read this and then determine why you would choose to make your vote or lackthereof,
a punitive one.... http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2011/09/03/we-all-have-a-choice-in-the-2012-election/

Look, if your dissatisfaction is so great with Obama, and if there are many,
as you say....people like you, and the joke's on us, then be prepared
to be dissatisfied way beyond your obvious current incapability to handle
disappointment...because, you see....By the time the Republicans are done with you,
you will be jumping up and down wanting to vote the asshole Republican out of office next election, no matter who happens to be running against him on our side.

But you know what; the damage will have already been done......
and you would be one of the many we can thank for making it happen.

I don't give a fuck about is trying to respond to me! Whee!

Candidate Obama's campaign rhetoric clearly stated that none of those things would be altered.

It's obvious those people misinterpreted.

That's our biggest fail - getting people to vote. If it actually happened that way, republicans would be a manageable abnormality, not a major political party.

Here he trys to convince voters how faithful he is to American made/Detroit made autos....As in "my wife drives a couple Cadilacs"

http://www.youtube.com/user/ThinkProgress6

Oh yes..These Repuke candidates....The gift that keeps on giving

it's HUGH!!111!!!111!!

...is that Obama inspired soo many people into believing he was going to represent real change.

I doubt he'd fill that stadium today as he did then.

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.

Now does that mean the answer lies with the crazies on the rightwing? Obviously not.

But to think Obama is the second coming of FDR, hell, for that matter, even on a par with Eisenhower is to fool yourself.

Go into this next election with your eyes wide open.

Lots of people had fairly accurate expectations for what could happen given the whole set of circumstances.

It's a basic fact that if something seems too good to be true, it generally is.

it would be much less tragic.

Maybe it's camouflage to make us think there's empty heads in all those empty seats.

...and the stadium grass,... well I just love the perfect symmetry and hue of a well manicured er umm lawn...and...uh.......

TYY

A similar pic, and accurately captioned "Democrats 2012." Let's make it happen, people!!



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I've punted farther than that.

Who had taken us into a radical new direction by, among other things,

Shredding basic constitutional rights

Getting us into 2 wars

Running up massive deficits

Torturing

Playing with the idea of extra-legal powers such as assassination

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See where I am going with this? THOSE crowds were for a return to the country we knew BEFORE 9/11 turned it into a paranoid freakshow run by the military industry.

College age boys, that is. It was a wonderful night.