Posted on 10/31/2010 12:43:37 PM PDT by kristinn
Brack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden made their last campaign rally appearance in a nearly half-empty college arena in Cleveland today.
CBS News' Mark Knoller Tweeted that the Democrat National Committtee says that the 13,600 seat arena had about 8,000 in attendance for the rally held at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center.
Before the rally, the Associated Press speculated that the crowd was not going to fill the arena.
Obama's (sic) was expected to appear about 2:30 p.m. at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center. A crowd was trickling in about an hour before the president was expected, raising questions whether the arena, which can hold up to 14,000 people, would be filled.
At 1:30 p.m., only the lower bowl was full, though hundreds of people had crowded onto a portion of the floor before the stage.
Knoller's Tweet:
DNC says there were 8,000 people at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State Univ. Full capacity is about 13,600.
19 minutes ago via web
Blame the NFL.
Sigh...Brack=Barack.
Sounds like they have that college demographic really energized for Tuesday!
Sounds like at least 5600 union employees are planning on going to work tomorrow and couln’t make it to this Klownfest.
Obummer’s magic has faded. The Hope and Change is over. The so called new Camelot is gone. The only thing left is Obummer to shake the dew from his lily. The Pissant is going the way of Jimmie “Peanut Farmer” Carter -, Carter will no lonnger be known as America’;s worst President, Obummer will become America’s worst Pissant
Sweet! Obama’s getting smacked down in OHIO!
Maybe because most of the people were at the “Return to the Sanitarium “ meeting in D.C.
They could get 35,000 people to show up to watch garbage trucks dump their loads at the dump.
Thats because Obama’s unemployed base is at home watching NFL on their big screen plasma satellite tv’s.
The Browns have a bye week. They will have to blame it on Lebron. Oops. He’s gone, too. Are the Indians still playing?
College kids who voted these nimrods in now have degree’s, student loans and NO JOBS! They’ll learn, from the school of hard knocks! Elections have consequences
OMG! That picture is quiet telling! That’s great. Maybe he should have brought the Moose with him. She’s so extremely popular don’t cha know.
I’d say this is pitiful — that a sitting president can’t draw more people than this! Speaks well for Freedom and Good Sense!
Get the people who reported on the Colbert rally to count the audience - it’ll be a full house in no time.
NYT also reporting “thin crowd”:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/thin-crowd-for-cleveland-campaign-rally/
Heckled AGAIN!
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0bwjcM02ima8n?q=obama+biden+protestors
Getty Images 9 minutes ago
CLEVELAND - OCTOBER 31: Protestors shout while U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speak during the president’s ‘Moving America Forward’ rally October 31, 2010 at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Obama has been traveling the country campaigning for Democratic candidates leading up to Tuesday’s crutial midterm election.
Mr. Racist gets a white crowd.
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