Quicken Loans Arena Capacity (where Repug debate is tonight)

[LiberalElite]

Capacity is over 20,000.
https://www.google.com/search?q=quicken+loans+arena+capacity&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8


Yet only 5,000 will be in the audience according to my local ABC station in NYC. See link (scroll down):

http://abc7ny.com/politics/republicans-face-off-in-first-debate-of-2016-presidential-race/901711/


Interestingly (and annoyingly) this article doesn't mention the venue's capacity and the yuuuge difference between capacity and actual audience size.

[tularetom]

1. Betcha Bernie Sanders could pack the joint nt.

[Fred Sanders]

2. 5000 is the number of Fox media employees and GOP operatives and donors that were available for this not a debate.

[Whiskeytide]

3. I am curious to know what...

... the admission criteria is. Do you have to take a sworn oath to Rupert? Sign a loyalty pledge? Possess a tea bag hat? A misspelled sign? How do you get to be one of the 5 thousand?

[Ed Suspicious]

4. Wait, they have ten candidates sharing a stage and they could only muster 500 a piece?

Pathetic.

[LiberalElite]

5. maybe some got more and others got a lot less.... nt

[Fred Sanders]

6. It is a controlled event....it is Fox.

[LiberalElite]

7. but looking at it now - it's obvious that

only a very small part of that arena is in use.

[Fred Sanders]

8. For obvious reasons....controlling the message of the staged propaganda event, years in the planning

[LiberalElite]

9. no argument there nt

[Travis_0004]

10. They are not playing basketball

They have a stage, and that blocks off a lot of seats. Their primary goal is to make it look good for tv.

[LiberalElite]

11. but, when it isn't filled - and those empty seats can be seen

I dont' think it looks so great. Esp. since the "socialist" could fill those seats, no question.