Great question. Looking at the audience for his speech, which apparently drew just over 1,000 spectators, they weren't all kids. Lots of older leftists. Mostly black, but also whites sprinkled in.
Serious? This ex-(P)Resident drew a thousand or less people, for a free speech. In Chicago. At a University.
In the news today is the Wookie, aka Michael, aka Michelle, will be campaigning in Las Vegas and Miami. Serious Blue towns. Why?
Blue wave=blue trickle
Love you FReeQs. Gotta sign off. I’ll answer posts and FReepmails tomorrow.
K
Minor point: The speech was given at the University of Illinois in Urbana. (Or Champaign-Urbana to be even more exact)
However....
Considering that UI/Chicago (aka Navy Pier back in my day) has a smaller student population than the Champaign-Urbana Main campus, that attendance figure leaves me "seriously" gobsmacked.
There were only 28,000 students at the school 'way back in the 60's when I was there and I'd claim you could draw a crowd of well over a thousand in thirty seconds flat for a stone-ugly coed's costume malfunction. (I recall a celebration of the Illini football team's upset victory over Purdue that wound up with close to 10,000 of us running all over the entire area....)
Gee. No wonder The 0 was sounding so out-of-sorts.