[Jeff Head]

By some accounts, close to 20,000 of those were press-reporters, photographers, journalists, newspapers, magazines, and anchors (local, state, and national from all over the country) and their crews.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[madameguinot]

OK, that makes me feel better. I attended the Springfield event last weekend, and there is no way there was anything close to 35,000 people (the most quoted estimate). It was more like 4000.

[SeaHawkFan]

What bands played before Obama spoke? Concert tickets aren’t cheap and I can see a lot of people going just for the concerts.