[odawg]

Other reports have 30,000.

[C. Edmund Wright]

20 or 30 either one is impressive and has the other candidates shuffling. I can also tell you from experience that crowd size estimates are indeed part of the game the media plays.

One example...I was handling media for a Presidential state campaign, and we hosted Marilyn Quayle at a rally. There were about 600 people there....and I had to negotiate the crowd size with the reporters - holding access over their heads - to get a reported 3-400 turn out. They wanted to call it 100-200.

It’s part of their schtick. They also use photographic angles to make the crowd look small too. For Democrats, it’s just the opposite.

See, we can agree.....when you’re right.

[Tanniker Smith]

I heard that they were expecting 30, which is why they got the stadium, which (again, heard) holds 40.

Right there I saw the problem with the visuals of a stadium being 1/4 empty, knowing some would focus their cameras on the empty seats.

[itsahoot]

Other reports have 30,000.

CNN reported that the city said 30,000 attended.