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After all

What explains

A

Half empty

Stadium

At his ELECTION KICKOFF

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The Lonely Guy



The first rule of Campaign Club is to pick a venue that produces an overflow crowd. The second rule of Campaign Club is that the first rule is critically important for the kickoff event. Barack Obama and his team managed to violate both rules, and Breitbart’s Alexander Marlow noticed:


Barack Obama launched his campaign in unspectacular fashion today at Ohio State University, the largest college in the crucial swing state. A photo posted to twitter by Mitt Romney’s campaign spokesman Ryan Williams reveals sparse attendance. The above image, according to Williams, was taken during the President’s first official campaign speech.





I haven’t seen that many open seats since the last Starland Vocal Band reunion concert. Afternoon Delight this isn’t.

Of course, the Obama campaign expected overflow crowds at OSU, according to ABC News:


Four years after “Obamamania” swept college campuses and across the country, we will get a glimpse of what the phenomenon looks like the second time around. The Obama campaign expects overflow crowds at both OSU and VCU as part of carefully orchestrated optics. Aides want to portray the president as still highly popular among young people and still able to energize large crowds.

So much for Obamamania. Why, I doubt that the campaign had more than two or three fainters in this crowd. They did, however, try rearranging deck chairs on this particular Titanic to make it look as though the ship wasn’t sinking:


But the event fell short of the 20,000 supporters the campaign had forecast as organizers moved people from seats to the arena floor in front of the dais to project fullness to television audiences. Obama volunteers had worked feverishly over the last week to gin up a crowd, making multiple calls to residents believed to be supportive of the president.

Twitter was abuzz with photos and comments about vast areas of empty seats in the arena’s upper deck.

That pretty much sums up this President, doesn’t it? He projects an image of fullness, but he’s mainly an empty suit. And four years later, he’s not fooling nearly enough people to succeed.

 

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Empty Seats

For the

EMPTY SUIT

 

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Bad camera angle.

 

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What if the President Kicked Off His Campaign and No One Cared?


In politics, when you’re explaining you’re losing, and when you’re explaining missed expectations, you’re really losing. Going by what occurred Saturday at Ohio State University, President Obama’s re-election campaign kickoff was a double barreled loss.

The president’s campaign went into its official May 5 kickoff — — promising “overflow crowds.” But as we’ve all seen by now in the photo tweeted all around the political world, no overflow was necessary. It looked more like an undertow, with less than half the arena filled. The campaign’s parallel event at Virginia Commonwealth University didn’t do any better.



Let’s be candid: That is a pitiful crowd, compared to what the president’s campaign said they expected. If that event was the kickoff of a big rock group tour, the promoters would be huddling today to figure out which dates they would consolidate, and which would just be shed altogether. They would be looking to move some dates from arenas to smaller, what they would call “more intimate” venues, and they would consider ramping up the advertising to juice ticket sales.

Even the New York Times noticed that the president’s 2012 kickoff lacked the pop of 2008:


[T]he rallies had the feeling of a concert by an aging rock star: a few supporters were wearing faded “Hope” and Obama 2008 T-shirts, and cheers went up when the president told people to tell their friends that this campaign was “still about hope” and “still about change.”

Compared to the massive 2008 event when the Decemberists — a Marxist rock band — helped the then candidate bring out more than 75,000, one word sums up the Times’ take on Saturday: Ouch.

Maybe the aging rock star needs to get his warm-up act back on the road with him to save the tour

 

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What if the President Kicked Off His Campaign and No One Cared?


In politics, when you’re explaining you’re losing, and when you’re explaining missed expectations, you’re really losing. Going by what occurred Saturday at Ohio State University, President Obama’s re-election campaign kickoff was a double barreled loss.

The president’s campaign went into its official May 5 kickoff — ON KARL MARX'S BIRTHDAY— promising “overflow crowds.” But as we’ve all seen by now in the photo tweeted all around the political world, no overflow was necessary. It looked more like an undertow, with less than half the arena filled. The campaign’s parallel event at Virginia Commonwealth University didn’t do any better.



Let’s be candid: That is a pitiful crowd, compared to what the president’s campaign said they expected. If that event was the kickoff of a big rock group tour, the promoters would be huddling today to figure out which dates they would consolidate, and which would just be shed altogether. They would be looking to move some dates from arenas to smaller, what they would call “more intimate” venues, and they would consider ramping up the advertising to juice ticket sales.

Even the New York Times noticed that the president’s 2012 kickoff lacked the pop of 2008:


[T]he rallies had the feeling of a concert by an aging rock star: a few supporters were wearing faded “Hope” and Obama 2008 T-shirts, and cheers went up when the president told people to tell their friends that this campaign was “still about hope” and “still about change.”

Compared to the massive 2008 event when the Decemberists — a Marxist rock band — helped the then candidate bring out more than 75,000, one word sums up the Times’ take on Saturday: Ouch.

Maybe the aging rock star needs to get his warm-up act back on the road with him to save the tour

 

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Ok

This is YET again

The reason to read BB's threads

THE TITLE IS BRILLIANT

 

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