Obama Launches Campaign in Empty Arena
Barack Obama launched his campaign in unspectacular fashion today at the Ohio State University, the largest college in this crucial swing state. According to a photo posted to twitter by Mitt Romney’s campaign spokesman Ryan Williams, the event was poorly attended.
And then the reality:
About 14,000 filed into the 18,300-seat Schottenstein Center, with the arena’s upper deck nearly empty. Student attendance at the rally was modest.
So surely Mitt Romney can do better right?
Despite falling short of expectations, the crowd at Obama’s Ohio State University event was still many times larger than Romney’s 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 Romney’s February economic speech in Detroit, where 1,200 people turned out for an event in a stadium that seats 65,000.
Yes, let's talk about empty stadiums, shall we?
Three-quarters full is an "empty arena" when the President is Barack Obama. They hate him this much because he says things like this:
So in the world of Big Moron, Obama game a speech to an "empty arena". There's no downside to the lie, of course. It's not like our liberal media will call them on it. In fact, it's more likely they will repeat the lie until it becomes fact, then a trend consisting of facts, then a President locked in a tight race for his political survival (when the opposite its true.) It may demoralize voters. It will give observers the illusion of a close race, and of course the opinion-makers of the Village must be heeded in a situation like that. A boring, lop-sided competition becomes a razor-thin slugfest. You know, just like 2008 wasn't.
When he wins, it will be "How could he possibly have won when he gave campaign" rallies at empty arenas? He couldn't possibly have won without his Chicago thuggery! It must be VOTER FRAUD ON AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE! IMPEACH! IMPEEEEEEEACH!"
And let's be honest: The next six months of this aren't really about helping Romney win. He can't and they know it. It's all about pre-emptively delegitimizing Obama's second term now. The plan really is simple. Six months of "empty arenas" and "unspectacular attendance" will prove that the polls showing the President ahead are all "suspect". When he wins, it will be "hard for the country to accept how it happened when nobody came to the President's rallies".
And that of course, Republican in Congress will have to investigate because the "people will be clamoring to know". The people lied to by Breitbart, and FOX, and Drudge, and the rest.
Really is that simple. How well it will work? For tens of millions who only get their info from FOX and still believe the President's birth certificate isn't real? For tens of millions more who get their news from the Villagers who insist only they have the power to see the future of this race that's "too close to call"?
What do you think?
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