2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRomney says '30K attend OH rally' - BUT Secret Service says just 15K went through metal detector
Good Lord - Do they feel they have to lie about everything?
The campaign announced that 30,000 people attended, but Secret Service sources said just 15,000 went through metal detectors. And local law enforcement counted the crowd at 18,000.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83252.html#ixzz2B8NuTL00
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)He must have had a truly scant crowd for his big finale
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)JimDandy
(7,318 posts)People streamed out when Mitt started speaking after Kid Rock was done playing. Bet they also handed out free tickets at this venue in Ohio when they couldn't get enough Repubs to come to their campaign offices to be pre-screened for tickets.
VirginiaTarheel
(823 posts)Etch and Sketch crowds
VirginiaTarheel
(823 posts)barnabas63
(1,214 posts)politicaljack78
(312 posts)Just 12-15,000 had been outsourced. And another 10-15 were waiting in the pipeline to be outsourced.
merrily
(45,251 posts)He's been good at humiliating others, but the thought of being humiliated by others must kill him inside.
karma
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)They are so pathetic. People come to see the President, and they love the music there (if they have any) but the main attraction is The Man himself.
Mitt? He's the free pizza you used to get when you agreed to go to your friend's creepy church group after school.
tblue37
(65,487 posts)Mitt is the creepy church group you have to put up with to get the free concert--er, pizza.
Charlotte Little
(658 posts)Smilo
(1,944 posts)GP6971
(31,205 posts)surprises who? Not me. Lying is his first nature to his whole campaign.
JohnnyRingo
(18,641 posts)They may have given the pass to everyone named Romney and Osmond.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)rightsideout
(978 posts)Cha
(297,650 posts)brainwashed wanting to listen to mittLies and then I remembered kid rock.
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)and multiply by two!
BouzoukiKing
(163 posts)...count the people who left at the back and came in through the front entrance for a second time?
And has Photoshop been taken into account?
wishlist
(2,795 posts)Romney knows what he's doing- inflating the number to discourage Dems and build momentum for his side.
Tutonic
(2,522 posts)he literally doubles down!
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)the effect of his speaking.
meow2u3
(24,772 posts)instead of the number of bodies.
We all know that repukes are two-faced, so Robme's half right for a change.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)15000 brain dead zombie rombots in one place. Geez that is ugly!
kerouac2
(449 posts)Switch the music when Romney comes out to "Sweet Little Lies" by Fleetwood Mac...
If I could turn the page
In time then I'd rearrange just a day or two
Close my, close my, close my eyes
But I couldn't find a way
So I'll settle for one day to believe in you
Tell me, tell me, tell me lies
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh, no, no you can't disguise
(You can't disguise, no you can't disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
Although I'm not making plans
I hope that you understand there's a reason why
Close your, close your, close your eyes
Lightsource777
(78 posts)They exaggerated and that seems desperate but even if they hadn't... I remember Kerry got humongous crowds and still lost.
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)hockeynut57
(230 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)They had just come from seeing the Elves in Lothlórien. That would explain the discrepancy.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)The real number is 30k. The Secret Service only counted people on the way in.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)It's a wonder that Romney isn't afraid of being assasinated by them, too.
dynasaw
(998 posts)they flew in on angel wings.
Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)Mrloserpunk
(41 posts)Enthusiastic crowd, but hard not to notice the rows of empty seats at the back of this Romney rally in Virginia Beach. #2012
@sppeoples via web
Also, consider this was in butler county Ohio right? Didn't McCain carry that by near 20 points? If he couldn't get a huge crowd there, he would be dead already. But why the need to still drum up support where he is almost guaranteed to win anywys?
Meanwhile, Obama had a rally in Lima Ohio in Allen county. A county he lost to John McCain.
Looks like romeny is playing defense and trying to stop leakage in counties he must win in Ohio!
frylock
(34,825 posts)skeewee08
(1,983 posts)President O, when Springsteen & JZ perform...
theKed
(1,235 posts)like how, say, -5 is tied in the pools. It's just arithmetic!
VPStoltz
(1,295 posts)Are you going to believe Robbedme or your own lyin' eyes?
Rollin
(12 posts)They should use a Mental Detector