Posted on 09/21/2008 7:39:14 PM PDT by radar101
LADY LAKE, Florida (CNN) The Villages, which bills itself as Floridas premier active adult retirement community, is a regular stopover for presidential candidates hunting for votes in this quadrennial electoral battleground.
Sarah Palin chose this sprawling golf haven as the place to make her Florida debut on Saturday, just her fifth campaign event apart from John McCain since becoming the vice presidential nominee. It may have been a wise choice, if only for the optics on the same day Barack Obama drew over 20,000 voters to an outdoor rally in North Carolina, Palin attracted tens of thousands of her own sun-baked supporters.
Though the audience was one of the Palins largest to date, the actual size of the crowd could not be verified. According Mike Tucker, the fire chief of The Villages who was made available to the press by the McCain campaign, 60,000 people crammed into the streets to see Palin speak.
There were people down the side streets, people down in the parking areas, people who couldn't quite make it around to the main areas, Tucker said, adding that many people were let into the rally without tickets, making the crowd count impossible to verify.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
unbelievable!
unbelievable!Not to me.
Funny how Republicans are required to show proof and provide a physical headcount of the numbers from their rallies. The ‘RATS are just taken at their word of how many people attended their protests and rallies. ‘RAT numbers are NEVER challenged.
CNN does not question the supposed 20,000 from the Obama propaganda !
They really should be renamed ONN !
What is unbelievable? The crowds she attracted, or the CNN coverup?
Estimate by the Fire Chief....per another article on the event.
I love how all it takes is for Ocrybaby to claim her crowd sizes are inflated and the MSM questions it from this point forward.
If he wins outside of Fox we will have state run tv.
And they stood there—for 2 hours— in 90 degree, 70+% humidity to see Sarah
Yeah, 60 of them, by local estimates. The headline sure tries to diminish the count, doesn't it?
-PJ
"A plane is flying overhead with a banner declaring, "The South is Palin Country."
So did they take any pictures of the crowd from that airplane?????
PALIN DRAWS 60,000 At Florida Rally!
unbelievable that palin, whom the media ignores,
is an avalanche!
palin’s popularity is not media or advertising driven;
she’s going to keep growing in popularity.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
thanks.
uh...no offense, but that’s why i do not watch tv.
those media babes were not making much sense!
CBS news tonight showed McCain at a small function and Obama at with a crowd and proclaimed Obama still draws the big crowds. They didn’t even mention Palin.
Look for some serious crowd inflation at future 0bama events.
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