Don't worry. Here's some of the things about the event the urinal/sentinal won't tell you.
1. It wasn't anywhere near 80,000
2. The WEAC conference (teachers) is being held in madison this week. It's one of the the largest if not the largest conventions there. Built in audience.
3. They brought in bus loads of people from iowa and minnesota too. Most likely others were brought in (union members) from other parts of the state.
4. Look at the crowds on instapundit. Not fired up at all. A lot of college kids (madison is a big college town) that came to see the free music.
5. After all of this, the clerk's office they left open for voters wasn't busy at all.
6. Madison is the berkeley of the midwest. It's 5 days before the election. Why is kerry struggling to motivate what should be one of his biggest base areas, while GWB is campaigning in reagan democrat areas?
Those are some excellent points that you made. Especially with the Teacher's convention being there. Of course, that's who was at it. Glad my tax dollars go to those idiots.