How pathetic. Romney camp reduced to lying about numbers at 'blowout' rally. Doubling the #? Really?

[bigtree]

John Nichols ‏@NicholsUprising

Oops! Politico: Mitt's campaign announces "30K people attend (OH rally), but Secret Service says just 15K went through metal detectors. "


Andrew Kaczynski ‏@BuzzFeedAndrew

Conflicting reports of Romney Ohio crowd size. Campaign cites Fire Dept. saying 30K, local enforcement says 18K, Secret Service says 15K.


Lis Smith ‏@Lis_Smith

No wonder why @Mittromney thinks he's winning Ohio: his campaign said a crowd of 18k tonight was actually 30k. #meoryourlyinstaff


Josh Marshall ‏@joshtpm

Hmm. So Romney camp says 30k people at blowout rally. Local police say 18k, Sec service say 15k. How can we ever get to bottom of mystery

[hobbit709]

1. You attended the rally if you were within 5 miles of it.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Counting, like science, is overrated! Blind faith is all you need in the world of the Tealiban.

[Life Long Dem]

3. Flipping through the channels,

I just heard on Fox and Friends they are using the 30k number. Then they went into Libya when I turned the channel.

[WinkyDink]

4. Mathiness.

[Evergreen Emerald]

5. bigfatliars hoping to cull the herd to get just enough support.

They are counting on two things: a corrupt media and a stupid electorate, or at least a busy, uninformed electorate who may hear their lies and assume they would not be reported if not the truth.

Fraud.

[.99center]

6. CNN: "Too close to call"

[SingleSeatBiggerMeat]

7. Yes! I Think We Have The FOX News "Conspiracy of the Day!"

First - the Climate
Second - The Economist
Third - Governor Christie
Fourth - Mayor Bloomberg
Fifth - Those Damn Poeple Getting A Job (Dammit, just stay at home!)
And Now....
The Secret Service..

They All Hate Romney and Eddie...

[Anthony McCarthy]

8. It's like what happens if you try to take a horcrux from a Gringott's vault.

There's an undead quality to the Republican candidates this year.

[Evergreen Emerald]

10. hahaha--he who shall not be elected.

I love Harry Potter references!

[oldhippydude]

9. obviously 46% are invisible............n/t

[PATXgirl]

17. I see where you're going with this

And I like it.

[stillcool]

11. that's another one of those

facts that they simply will not allow to dictate their campaign.

[treestar]

12. The Secret Service is a government agency

It must have cooked the numbers.

[Arkansas Granny]

18. So that would make it Obama's fault, right?

[MiniMe]

13. It is republicant math

15+18=33 They just don't recognize that both agencies were talking about the same 15k peioke

[tanyev]

14. Ah, that's how Rove can claim that Romney is beating Obama in crowd size.

[hootinholler]

15. But how many left after Kid Rock finished? n/t

[we can do it]

16. Its nothing new for them, they've been inflating crowd size all along

see my earlier post about the physically impossible crowd size in my home town -
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021507108