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Democrats set to move Obama's big speech from 74,000-seater outdoor stadium to 20,000-seater
Daily Mail ^ | 9/4/12 | Toby Harnden

Posted on 09/04/2012 9:34:47 AM PDT by Nachum

Charlotte, North Carolina - Democrats are poised to avoid the danger of President Barack Obama accepting his party’s nomination before a partially-empty stadium by shifting his speech to an indoor arena and citing ‘severe weather’. The Obama campaign have been working desperately to ensure that the 74,000-seater Bank of America stadium in Charlotte would be filled. Buses for students from across North Carolina and even members of black churches in neighboring South Carolina have been arranged. Images of rows of empty seats at the stadium, home of the Carolina Panthers, as Obama speaks on Thursday night would be politically disastrous

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To: Nachum

Beautiful!

I wonder if they will lose any sort of deposit to the stadium authority. Geez! What was I thinking? These are democRATS and they don’t do no steenkin’ deposits.


81 posted on 09/04/2012 10:34:50 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: SamAdams76
re: The Charlotte metro area has approx. 2 million people (800K in Charlotte proper) and Obama can’t fill a 74,000 seat stadium on his big night? Not even with free bus rides and free ham sandwiches?

I am not a math whiz, so correct me if I am wrong, but when I did the math 74,000 is only .037% of 2 million. So if no other people from anywhere else in the country attended the speech, less than 4% of the Charlotte metro would have to attend to fill the seats for an historic event. If the Obama campaign is having to bus people in, that is really pitiful.

82 posted on 09/04/2012 10:37:07 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: Nachum

Bring in the state prison inmates to assist as ‘clean up crews’, empty the asylums, grant 3 day school holidays, free school bus service for students ‘wishing’ (ordered) to attend the ‘Rat Convention!

NUMBERS people, we gotta have NUMBERS!!

NOTE to television networks, NO wide angle lenses will be permitted, 55 mm minimum focal length, telephoto lenses *preferred* and encouraged!


83 posted on 09/04/2012 10:41:17 AM PDT by mkjessup (Finley Peter Dunne - "Politics ain't beanbag")
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To: Michael Barnes

Check out the site for “The Inflatable Crowd Company”, (not the same photos — but, you’ll see what it’s all about).

http://inflatablecrowd.com/default/Home.html


84 posted on 09/04/2012 10:42:10 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Nevadan
I am not a math whiz, so correct me if I am wrong, but when I did the math 74,000 is only .037% of 2 million.

Ahh... It's 3.7% of 2 million.

85 posted on 09/04/2012 10:42:54 AM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: MissMagnolia

Just wait until the fools start talking at the convention...and tell more lies.

They have a Mexican Mayer from San Antonio for their first speaker,he is nothing but a Mayer of mostly Mexican city and a city full of illegals..so he got elected..Nothing wrong with Mexicans just the ones uneducated and illegal..and one that are told to vote for the democrats that they know nothing about..


86 posted on 09/04/2012 10:43:21 AM PDT by PLD
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To: Bigg Red
Lets see here, the sand sculpture is melting away, going from a 74,000 seating to 20,000, rain rain rain, Corrny Booker falls and hurts his leg, Clint Eastwood gets under their skin with the talking chair hell I can go on and on.

I can't watch the Dems because they make me sick and my blood pressure wants to explode so I am watching My Name is Earl and all I can think of is CARMA!!!!!!!!!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...........

FYBO!! ┌∩┐(◣_◢)┌∩┐

87 posted on 09/04/2012 10:44:12 AM PDT by Johnny_cash
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To: Nachum

It looks like all that Obuggery has left is his Volksturm which is what the Nazis were down to at the bitter end of WWII.


88 posted on 09/04/2012 10:45:22 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: SamAdams76

Ham sanwitches? What are you, some sort of racist? You know Muzzies don’t eat pork. :-)


89 posted on 09/04/2012 10:48:16 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Obadiah

I like it!


90 posted on 09/04/2012 10:48:36 AM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: Nachum
That is pathetic. Give Sarah Palin's fans 24 hour notice, let alone the months that the Dems had, and the 74,000 seats would all be filled, with a line stretching miles outside the stadium. I wouldn't miss even a nap to see a failure like Obama, but it's amusing that those who think he's good for what they want America to become aren't interested in seeing him either.

Note: I was there for Beck/Palin/etc on MLK Day in 2010, and the two of them drew well over 200,000 people.

91 posted on 09/04/2012 10:49:07 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Check out the site for “The Inflatable Crowd Company”, (not the same photos — but, you’ll see what it’s all about).

I liked this, found drilling down in the website you linked:

"The use of dummies has been a part of filmmaking for most of its history."

-- Joe Biggins, CEO, Inflatable Crowd Company


92 posted on 09/04/2012 10:50:33 AM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Nachum

I’m praying for heavy rain all week in Charlotte.


93 posted on 09/04/2012 10:52:54 AM PDT by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: Nachum

Why don't they just photoshop in extra crowds, just like their Iranian friends do with missiles (third from the right is photoshop, and Iranian papers published another picture they took from the Internet - with dozen of photoshopped missiles plus Jar Jar Binks)? If Buckhead hadn't caught Dan Rather, I'll bet the far left media would still be using stunts like that to cover for their chosen Dear Leader.

94 posted on 09/04/2012 10:55:20 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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95 posted on 09/04/2012 10:58:51 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Steely Tom

LOL. Unintentional humour is often the best.


96 posted on 09/04/2012 11:00:25 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: SamAdams76
free ham sandwiches?

Bad call. Many of Obama's biggest fans don't eat ham.


97 posted on 09/04/2012 11:01:33 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: MissMagnolia
or the potential rabble being conscripted out of bars, etc. that might have gotten into the stadium.

That had the makings of becoming the Superdome during Katrina


98 posted on 09/04/2012 11:02:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Bigg Red
I wonder if they will lose any sort of deposit to the stadium authority. Geez!

I recall reading they paid 3 1/2 months rent up front. They ain't getting anything back.

99 posted on 09/04/2012 11:02:44 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum
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To: Steely Tom

thanks!


100 posted on 09/04/2012 11:09:18 AM PDT by Nevadan
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