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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Let’s see, Romney gathers a crowd of 30,000 in the Columbus suburb of West Chester, Ohio. Obama gathers a crowd of 2800 in the Columbus suburb of Hilliard, Ohio. Interesting...
Hey Obama! Ohio wishes you the best in your job search!
Actually, West Chester is a suburb of Cincinnati...used to live in Forest Park many years ago. Way to go Cincy!
But I agree with your concept...over 10X as many people for Romney as there was for Obama.
gmp - oops, my mistake. I was thinking of Westerville which is just north of Columbus.
Regardless, Romney outdrew Obama 10:1. It’ll be interesting to see how he does in Cleveland!
Your point is well taken.
Romney does massive events in the great outdoors!
Obama is reduced to indoor events in smelly high school gyms!
LOL!
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