McCain's Crowd Disturbingly Small, Ten Times Less Than Planned For

[Quixote1818]

Something was missing from the first of John McCain's seven campaign stops today: the crowd.

Kicking off the last day of the election in Tampa, Florida, John McCain was welcomed by a roughly 1,000 voters. Compare that to the 15,000 people that President Bush drew to a rally in Tampa on the eve of the 2004 election. "What's up with that?" wrote Adam Smith at the St. Petersburg Times.

Even Fox News had a bit of difficulty spinning the whole thing. Carl Cameron, who is following the Senator at every stop on Monday, said the crowd size was likely "a little bit disturbing" for the McCain campaign. He added that organizers had set up the venue predicting ten times the number of attendees.


Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/03/mccains-crowd-disturbingl_n_140412.html

[DainBramaged]

1. LOSER

[Trajan]

2. Hah .....

The same thing is going to happen at the polls ....

The GOP is in for a huge fall ....

[mr_hat]

3. Yeah, but they were all Joe the Plumbers.

Now with ten times the plunging power.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. The rest were busy, out

vandalizing Obama signs.

[RollWithIt]

5. A Monday Mornign Rally in Tampa... lets see how many take off work to show up....

Ooops.... 1000.

[Mossbeach]

6. Wow, that's like 1/6th the population of Wasilla!

[Saphire]

7. I have a feeling everything about him is disturbingly small.

[grimble_grumble]

8. 'Twas the day before the election

And all through Tampa,
Only 1,000 freepers
Came out to see
Grandpa!

[AtomicKitten]

9. McCain's politics are disturbingly small.

I can't believe on the last night he's launching a regional, poorly thought out attack. This is show time. Tonight's the closing argument. What a dumbass.

[salin]

10. Obama came to Indianapolis last week

in an event that was only announced about a day before (when he thankfully for him, changed his schedule to go see his grandmorther) - and Obama had a crowd of 40,000.

McCain had an event in Indiana this morning and 5,000 attended.

To use a trite phrase: stick a fork in him, he's done.

Even if McCain wins Indiana - it is likely to be by a hair (and I think it is very possible that Obama will win here) - it is a harbinger that red areas around the country are likely to tilt purple to blue.

Let me repeat this - two short notice events and Obama draws 40K and McCain draws 5K.