You do know that if they had had enough goonion folks there, they would have turned to physical intimidation,
like they did at the protests outside the White House during the Clinton years.
Police put us across a big sort of ravine from each other in the 2000 Florida West Palm protests outside the recount area. It was a giant crowd on the Bush side, maybe 1,000, maybe more, pitifully small on the Dem side, like I said van coming in and dropping them of, maybe 20. No chance for them to try physical intimidation, but I have no doubt they would have tried it if they could have achieved something positive from it. Cubans, cops, and ex-military guys would have handled that . . . the police were with us too, giving thumbs up and that sort of thing.