Two weeks ago convention organizers began making tickets available for the acceptance speech at the stadium.
Team Obama’s “9-3-1” program, which provides supporters with one ticket to the acceptance speech after they volunteer for nine hours over three shifts, an effort the campaign says will expand its grassroots, will also help fill empty seats.
In my show-biz days, one of our ongoing concerns was finding studio audiences for TV shows. Tickets for the highly rated shows were usually in demand, but for a lot of the other ones, you’d give away anywhere from 5 to 20 tickets in order to get one butt in a seat. The art form was finding the right ratio. At the major awards shows, we “dressed” the audience by having extras in formalwear filling the empty seats in the front rows. I wonder how they’re planning to “dress” the audience to cover the no shows for his speech?