Posted on 07/21/2016 9:51:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Even on Tuesday afternoon, during perhaps the largest protest so far, media and reporters easily outnumbered demonstrators.
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After the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals in June, the team beckoned some 1.3 million people to the city to celebrate....
While Cleveland and Akron have their share of Democratic voters, Ohio is still far from the elite coastal bastions of liberalism where politics plays like sports.
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There’s nowhere to stay
Even people who are here in Cleveland on official business have had to book accommodations outside the city—some as far away as Akron—thanks to Cleveland’s relatively limited hotel capacity. The new Hilton Cleveland Downtown, a tower that opened in May not far from the venue for the RNC, adds just 600 rooms to the city’s supply. Prices for hotels downtown are running for as much as $1,000 a night (though most are charging less).
While protesters might have looked to Airbnb for alternatives, rates for those rooms skyrocketed in advance of the event, too. The market isn’t perfect: Rates for Airbnb units still available now are not marked as high as they were before the start of the event. But the lack of reasonably priced advance accommodations may have kept protesters away.
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There’s still time...
The public spaces around the Q, where the RNC is being held, are open plazas, even discounting the space closed off to demonstrations by the Secret Service. One exception is East 4th Street, a nightlife corridor where a number of news organizations have rented out restaurants to serve as pop-up news bureaus....It’s a potential flashpoint: Were a skirmish to break out between liberal and conservative demonstrators, police would need to fight through crowds to reach the agitators. And 4th Street runs directly into the Q.
(Excerpt) Read more at citylab.com ...
Yes, thank god for the lack of protests. I didn’t watch the first 2 nights because I figured it would be a blood bath of “angry” never Trump people. Greatly relieved that it’s a non issue, hopefully to last the night.
I’ve been watching the show on CSPAN... and what a pleasure to watch the speeches without any talking heads trying to tell me what to think.
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Same here.
Wising up? Perhaps. Or, more likely IMO, the Soros groups have decided to back off instead of having more goings-on to bolster Trump’s law-and-order stance.
What happened?
Open carry
My theory is that the DNC called off the riots because they did not want to further aggravate the case against The Witch, which would have caused middle America to be further unlikely to vote for her. She is that bad of a candidate.
I think it’s a combination of things.
Wide security area set up. They want to harass the people going in and out of the convention, this way they can’t easily get to them.
Good police presence. I don’t remember any specific announcements, but I think they announced they were getting ready and would have plenty cops on hand.
Bikers for Trump probably has something to do with it too.
So far mostly small groups. Police can get in, clear then out and be done in short order with little fuss. They never gave the huge crowds a chance to assemble.
No telling what has been happening with Soros and the democrats, it could be that they came to their senses...not very likely, but possible...and realized a big riot would help Trump more than anything else they could do. So they pulled the money.
I’m waiting for the Democrat convention, I don’t think it will be as peaceful. It will certainly be more...aromatic...
You have grossly overestimated their ability to be rational.
You’re probably right, let’s just chalk it up to laziness.
I do have high hopes for the fart in at the Democratic National Convention.
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