PALIN DRAWS CROWD OF 70,000 IN THE VILLAGES (FLORIDA RALLY 9/21/08)

News-Press | Sunday, September 21, 2008 | Bill Cotterell

[kristinn]

Gannett owned website. Headline and link only. Will look for another postable source. The article says the fire chief estimates the crowd today at Palin's rally at 70,000.

http://news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/NEWS0107/80921022

[pilipo]

The obvious joke would be in poor taste, hence my abstention. Tempting though!

[oust the louse]

Joe Biden singing about the villages....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRXH7RkCZQ&feature=related

[Collier]

I was listening to John Batchelor’s show also. I thought that Batchelor asked the question that unless Joe Biden was invited, they had to disinvite Sarah Palin. The answer was yes, that’s right, then Batchelor didn’t pursue it and they went on to say all politicians. Why didn’t they just invite Biden?

[MinuteGal]

Anybody know where the Messiah spoke today....and how big his crowd was?

Leni

[miliantnutcase]

Duluth is so full of die hard Dems. The entire arrow head is a bastion of communism. It’s all about who their union boss endorses up there. Gimme gimme, want want, take take, welfare, health care.

[Perdogg]

He was in Charlotte, but I think he was also in Jacksonville, Fl.

[paratrooper82]

I wish I could get 70,000 people together. I would put assault rifles in their hands with enough ammunition and send them all to Washington and clean house! Gives the proper definition of the 2nd amendment of the US Constitution.

[rlmorel]

Great! I love the lipstick thing, and...her family is just...well...endearing!

[Wil H]

Estimates ranged from 25,000 to 60,000 though the numbers were impossible to verify.

Have you noticed that Republican numbers are questioned, but Dem numbers are always stated as fact?

Obama DIDN'T get 200,000 in Berlin, despite the TWO Rock bands , free pizza and Free BEER!

The crowd was closer to 50,000.

And it IS possible to verify the size of the crowd if there are reasonable photos and film footage. You can certainly get a sanity check to give a close estimate using a few simple tools.

A case in point is Berlin - Do you really think that crowd was THREE times the size of the crowd he had at Invesco Field?

Of course not, there was the space or the facilities to accommodate 200,000 on the streets around the Victory Column.

[newzjunkey]

Did she need free rock concerts to draw the crowd like the Faux Messiah?

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

We didn’t realize that we forgot the camera until we were there. sorry.

[rlmorel]

hehe, devolve, that is GREAT!

[rlmorel]

Why thank you! Not hard to do with THAT material!

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

My favorite aunt and uncle live there as well..... I love the area, and I love to visit them..... they are such extraordinary people..... and really great cooks, too!

[STARWISE]

Awww .. that happens. Feel free to let us hear your other
comments.

[Nervous Tick]

LOL! My husband told me last night he was going to sign on to start a thread on what to do when you lose you spouse to FR during high news cycles like elections.

He's here now. He wants to know where the checkbook is.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Meanwhile, the MSM has written Palin off as a flash in the pan — yet still worthy of much denigration — and have moved back to promoting their golden boy.

Methinks they're in for quite a shock on November 4th.

[Quicksilver]

code pink and protesters were nowhere to be seen.

I'm sure that they were terrified by the sheer magnitude of the rally. :)

[Anti-Hillary]

And not a constituent/voter in the bunch...

[suijuris]

Just seems odd that the number 70,000 appears in both articles, one talking about residents, the other speaking of attendance numbers.

Fox News just reported 60,000 and I figure they probably are inclined to under report.