Obama Launches Reelection Campaign. Throngs of Adoring Fans Apparently Stuck in Traffic.redstate.com
Obama Launches Reelection Campaign. Throngs of Adoring Fans Apparently Stuck in Traffic.
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redstate.com — It seems that it’s not only Barack Obama’s position of football spiking that has taken a turn in an election year. Apparently the enthusiasm that resulted in huge stadiums full of adoring fans in 2008 has also changed quite a bit.

From the Columbus Dispatch:

The Romney campaign kept a close eye on the proceedings. Romney’s national press secretary, Ryan Williams, found his way to a seat in the arena and later characterized the speech as “a retread, a cut-and-paste job of President Obama’s 2008 campaign rhetoric.

“Unfortunately,” Williams continued, “for him this time around he has a record to defend, a record of exploding deficits, job losses and fiscal mismanagement in Washington.”

Twitter was abuzz with photos and comments about vast areas of empty seats in the arena’s upper deck.

Noting that the Obama campaign had predicted an “overflow crowd,” Williams said, “This arena was not full so the president failed to meet the bar his campaign set.”

So were the empty rows as bad as reported? Luckily for us, twitter exists.

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Will the media report the small crowds at Obama's campaign rallies?
Yes, the media always tells the truth and reports the facts (except when they are counter to the liberal agenda).
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No, they will continue spinning for their hero. They cannot risk a Republican in the White House. They are in love with misery.
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They fear Obama having to run on his miserable record.
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The elite liberal media is in full kneepad mode and will say anything or not report if it helps their CHOSEN WON!
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Wow, if you can't raise a crowd in Columbus, Ohio you are in trouble.
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All of those, the media has no pride.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Saturday was supposed to be President Barack Obama’s day, dominated by headlines of successful campaign holding its first rally. Instead, reports prominently included references to thousands of empty seats at the president’s first rally here — just as the Romney campaign wanted it.
At The Ohio State University, over 5,000 seats in the 20,000-person venue went unfilled on the upper seating deck and behind the press cameras —a sharp contrast to Obama’s events in 2008, and even a 2010 event with then-Gov. Ted Strickland which drew 35,000.
ABC News had reported Saturday morning that the campaign expected “overflow” crowds at each event, crowds which never did materialize.
The New York Times quoted Obama senior adviser David Plouffe, not about the president’s remarks, but about the crowd size — with reporter Mark Landler comparing the rallies to “a concert by an aging rock star.”
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