[Spiff]

The audience IS 80% college students. The front has all the older people and they seemed to be much more pro-Rudy than the students where I was sitting. There was also a somewhat sizeable faction of student Rudy supporters (maybe 50 or so) that all came in together with homemade Rudy signs. I know they were organizing this on Facebook last week. They were all up in the front on both sides. Basically what I am trying to say is that a lot of the vocal Rudy fans were up in the front of the room which may have left the impression that he was getting more support/louder applause than he was. For comparisons sake, Wayne LaPierre, who spoke before Rudy, got bigger, longer, and louder ovations from the room as a whole. It was just a different kind of applause for Rudy. He got the star treatment but not the candidate treatment that I saw in particular for Tancredo, Brownback, and Romney.

((((STOP RUDY PING))))

Looks like Giuliani's ovations at CPAC were mostly orchestrated by a pre-coordinated group of shills and were not as enthusiastic as the actual conservative speakers at CPAC. Pinging to a first hand account from an eyewitness at the speech.

[NautiNurse]

Looks like Giuliani's ovations at CPAC were mostly orchestrated by a pre-coordinated group of shills and were not as enthusiastic as the actual conservative speakers at CPAC.

Your interpretation is absolutely incorrect. The candidates with the loudest responses were those with the most paid shills (e.g. Romney, Brownback, Tancredo). Don't let the facts get in the way of your jihad.

[Corin Stormhands]

Looks like Giuliani's ovations at CPAC were mostly orchestrated by a pre-coordinated group of shills...

Lesson number one from Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute campaign school: Put your supporters in the crowd in a diamond pattern so that they can lead the response.

Sheesh Spiff! I learned that one before I learned how to blow up helium balloons.

If you think the other candidates don't do that, you're being incredibly naive. And if they actually don't, then they are the ones who are incredibly naive.

[jla]

Looks like Giuliani's ovations at CPAC were mostly orchestrated by a pre-coordinated group of shills...

Not surprising as duplicity attracts duplicitous people like moth to a flame.