[Nevadan]

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.

[Steely Tom]

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.

[ROTB]

So if no other people from anywhere else in the country attended the speech

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Flying them in at the last minute would be insanely expensive.