Posted on 11/02/2012 11:11:59 PM PDT by Steelfish
Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan Kick Off Final Weekend With Largest Rally to Date in Ohio
By EMILY FRIEDMAN Nov. 2, 2012 The Romney campaign marked the start of the final weekend of the campaign with its biggest rally to date, featuring a joint appearance by the GOP ticket and a confab of some of its most influential surrogates.
Before Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan took the stage in front of more than 20,000 supporters, they paraded out the Republican Party's last presidential nominee John McCain, GOP stars like Marco Rubio and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as well as two former GOP rivals, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
It was a pep rally of sorts at the Square at Union Centre before the surrogates fan out to battleground states in teams as the final hours leading up to Election Day on Tuesday approach. Aside from the GOP ticket and their wives, there were 42 surrogates, including the five Romney sons, on hand for Romney's closing pitch.
Romney, who spent the day campaigning in Wisconsin and Ohio, continued to characterize President Obama as a leader seeking to divide America with an ill-thought out agenda.
"Now throughout this campaign, President Obama has tried to convince you that these last four years have been a success," said Romney. "He's been floating a plan for the next four years. He wants to take all the things he did in his first term -- the stimulus, the borrowing, Obamacare, all the rest -- and try them all over again."
"But our big dreams will not be satisfied with a small agenda that's already failed us," he said. "And today, did you see what President Obama said today? He asked his supporters to vote for revenge. For revenge.
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ABC News gives no mentions of the tens of thousands present at the rally!
I was over at DUmp (shudder) and they said the news said 35k but the police only reported 18k.
Those people are delusional!
On Tuesday after those libtards get the ass whooping they deserve they will be like “What the hell happened..media said our savior would win”
30K according to West Chester Fire Chief.
Oops! Apologies, I missed that line. But it appears that ABC missed its mark by 10,000.
The MSM is going overboard to avoid revealing the fact that... The One’s campaign has flatlined.
There’s no life in it. When you have a President talk of taking revenge, let’s just say he’s politically dead, Jim.
He’s shrinking at an incredible rate. And his opponent is growing even stronger.
And we’re led to believe the election is a dead heat. Yeah, sure!
I noticed the photo featured in article is a close up view of Romney in a small cluster of supporters, as opposed to faraway widespan view that includes tens of thousands of exited voters. Strange why they chose that shot.
I noticed the photo featured in article is a close up view of Romney in a small cluster of supporters, as opposed to faraway widespan view that includes tens of thousands of exited voters. Strange why they chose that shot.
I hope they were ‘excited’ voters, not ‘exited’ voters!
Remember they would never show the crowd count for Clinton
Eh, meant excited.
The Cincinnati Enquirer put the number at 30,000.
There were people who had driven more than 40 miles to attend this rally.
Steven Docey on F&F just said there were 30,000 at the Romney Ryan rally last evening.
[No mention of how many attended the Obama venue the same evening in the same area. Obama does seem to be struggling to get even 2,000 attendees.]
Yes they did: first sentence of the second paragraph.
Yep. I saw the liberal pukes in Miami cover a Clinton event yesterday (Friday). This was the one where he said he “might be the only” person more excited than four years ago....by the way, no mention of that remark.
Anyway, there were NO SHOTS of the “crowd”, mostly up close stuff of him and the very small fanatics on the stage with him.
Weak. Even his superstar status is fading.
+/-18,000 were apparently turned away.
Worth watching. Must have been a whale of a great thing to see. And a security nightmare when they were on stage all together.
I was there. It was well over 30,000. People were in the streets and empty fields around the event because there was no more room. And everyone was FIRED UP!
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