It Didn't Look Like The Crowd Was That Big In Missoula.....

[global1]

has anyone heard about the crowd size in Missoula?

[Meadowoak]

1. The biggest crowd in the history of the world....LOL. It looked small to me too.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Period!

[Grasswire2]

2. It's not a very big town....

...and it's fairly liberal, being a college town. Plus, there are no big cities very close by. Spokane? Gotta be five hours or more. Helena isn't that big. Butte, nope.

[Garrett78]

5. And the whole state has, like, a thousand people. I kid, I kid.

[Delphinus]

11. Less than

a million in the state, at least back in 2000 when I contemplated going there.

[Grasswire2]

3. pre-rally estimate in Great Falls Tribune is 6-8000, nt

[Hortensis]

8. He only pulled 4000 in some southern city last week.

Apparently someone put out that 6000-8000 # ahead of time, and I just noticed that a lot of media, including both local and national, obediently quoted it ahead of time as if it were expected to be accurate information.

Trump overnighted in Mesa, AZ, and his rally today will have some of the crowd built in because it's being held at a private airport hangar out at the fringes of the county, and their employees will stop working and be there.

When he was in Phoenix last year, the Phoenix PD gassed peaceful protesters, and some people are still a little angry about that. Many venues apparently declined, and it was felt best to hold the rally as far away from a population concentration as possible, and away from the Phoenix PD. (The ACLU had been prepared to file for a court order restraining the PD.)

Link to tweet

[fierywoman]

4. Looked like it was outside an airplane hanger in a small airport.

[oberliner]

6. Missoula law enforcement officers estimated the crowd at about 8,000 people.

According to the Missoulian.

[Vinca]

9. Maybe they didn't get many takers on Craigslist.

[dhill926]

10. Don't believe what you see...

believe what you're told...