Posted on 11/01/2020 4:45:28 AM PST by EyesOfTX
[Note: This piece has heavy video content.]
So, does crowd size matter? You bet it does. I spent the entirety of the 2008 campaign deceiving myself that the massive crowds Barack Obama was drawing to his rallies were just anecdotal events that had no real meaning in terms of who was winning. I put myself through that very same delusion in 2012 and provided bad advice to an employer about who was most likely to win that year as a result of that faulty reasoning.
Make no mistake about it: These spontaneous outpourings of support mean a lot, and I’m not just talking about the thousands who come to his rallies. During the summer, we also witnessed hundreds of massive boat rallies held on rivers and lakes all over the country. The weather’s gotten too cold for boat rallies, so Trump supporters are finding other ways to show their support.
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They said in 2016 it did not matter. Then they admitted after Trump won, that in fact, crowd sized matters. Now they are saying it does not matter. Much of this, along with the bad polls, seems like the 2016 movie that I have seen before.
I remember all the yapping heads on CNN, MSNBC, and even on FOX, in 2016 saying that “Trump is getting big crowds, but that doesn’t mean they are going to vote for him” Yes, they actually thought that people who would spend many hours waiting in line to go to his rallies weren’t going to stand in line to vote.
During the last 2 weeks of the 2016 election I stopped looking at the polls and even watching TV including FOX. It was all doom, gloom, and Billy Bush tape time. Bill O’Reilly was always trotting out Bernie Goldberg, Charles Krauthammer, Megyn Kelly, and Brit Hume to say that Trump stood no chance of winning. The only one on FOX I can remember saying Trump could win was Tucker Carlson.
Instead of watching the propaganda networks, I looked at the rally sizes, the number of views they each got on youtube. At that time the average Trump rally was getting about 200,000 views, Clinton’s rallies were getting anywhere from 20,000 to 100,000 each. This year, Trump’s rallies are getting an average of 2 MILLION views (within 2 days of the rally), some even closer to 3 MILLION. Biden’s “events” sometimes get 100,000 views, and some only get 5 or 10,000.
The Butler PA crowd was stunning. It dwarfed anything from the 2016 campaign, and people had to spend hours in the cold. Most people won’t walk 200 yards to the corner store if it’s mildly cold, but patriots throughout the heartland have been braving the cold and long waits to show their love for the President. They are not their to hear his words. Everyone knows what he will say. They are there to say thank you for a job well done, and to let him know that the people have his back. With all of his business and political success, President Trump must be truly touched by this outpouring of support.
I keep repeating this, and the pearl clutchers around here can’t seem to wrap their mind around it.
Biden is not just a weaker candidate than Hillary, he is a _much_ weaker candidate than Hillary—and he will lose by a _much_ bigger margin than Hillary.
Biden’s astroturf campaign is a total disaster.
The President’s strategists have got it right this year—and they will be rewarded with a stunning victory (imho including a national popular vote victory).
Great article—thanks.
Spooky similarities. :)
Biden is not just a weaker candidate than Hillary, he is a _much_ weaker candidate than Hillary—and he will lose by a _much_ bigger margin than Hillary.
Biden’s astroturf campaign is a total disaster.
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With Obama, the Dems pushed the idea of the first African American president. With Hillary, they pushed the first female president. With Biden, what checkbox does he check for the “woke” crowd? He’s a zero.
The first senile candidate? ;-)
(guess they didn’t want to go there...)
“Biden’s “events” sometimes get 100,000 views....“
...and how much of that viewing is driven by morbid curiosity regarding his mental capacity?
judging from comments section it looks like at least half were just there to make fun of his tiny events.
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