http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021117610Oh my.
KegCreekDem (28 posts)
Before we get too presumptious....
that Obama-Biden has a sure lock on the election...Let's not forget that we have to get out the vote. Here's what the Repubs are reading. Doesn't it sound similar to what we are reading and seeing here?
Huge crowds line Manassas streets for Romney-Ryan
August 11, 2012 | 12:00 am | Modified: August 11, 2012 at 6:20 pm
after which a photograph of gloriously happy people
Susan Ferrechio, The Washington Examiner's crack congressional reporter traveling with the Romney-Ryan press bus troupe today, offers a photo of the crowds lining the streets of Manassas, Virginia, as the political caravan makes it way through downtown.
How to explain such crowds if Obama is leading in Virginia, one of the key swing states? Either the Romney advance team did a phenomenal job of generating interest before today, or there is a continuing surge in electoral momentum for insurgent change-agent candidates like that which powered the Republican sweep of the 2010 races.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/huge-crowds-line-manassas-streets-for-romney-ryan/article/2504666#.UCfcF52PWo-
Hmmmm.
I doubt Barack Milhous is
really leading in Virginia.
The gut instinct.
We'll see.
KegCreekDem (28 posts)
1. On the other hand.....
Don't these two buses appear to be on a collision coarse?
Motown_Johnny (13,989 posts)
14. you are looking at the back of the other bus
notice the license plate and the tail lights, not headlights
KegCreekDem (28 posts)
17. You are right.
But, I thought two buses appearing to collide would be a fitting omen to start their campaign.
Scuba (19,132 posts)
2. Aerial shot please. I don't consider 150 people a "huge crowd". Now in Madison last year....
after which a photograph of some hippies in Wisconsin
Brickbat (12,173 posts)
3. I see about 100 people in that picture. Does the "crowding" go on for miles?
Then I'd be impressed. But somehow I don't think it does.
A photo from *inside* the bus? Really? Jesus Christ.
surrealAmerican (6,229 posts)
12. That's my estimate too.
100 people is not much of a crowd: It's two bus loads.
JNelson6563 (23,560 posts)
4. I completely agree.
If we start to believe the election is as good as won we will really risk losing it.
I for one will do all I can to help the effort. I'll be helping my local Dems campaign and GOTV til it's over.
Let's get to work!
Yep.
There's
a lot of work for the adherents of Barack Milhous to get doing.
And only about 90 days left to do it.
Too bad for the primitives.
ibegurpard (10,584 posts)
5. yup
volunteering for a Democratic state senate candidate here and have been donating to several other state and federal candidates from my state as well. DO NOT let the focus only be on the presidential race!
^^^that's what the primitives need to be doing, so as to salvage at least something from the coming ship-wreck.
Enrique (19,163 posts)
6. i don't know how Obama is doing in Virginia but if I wanted to find out, I wouldn't look at crowd pictures.
I wouldn't look at rigged polls either.
Journeyman (8,531 posts)
7. The Sesquicentennial of the 2nd Battle of Bull Run (2nd Manassas) is this month . . .
so maybe this crowd is just into has-beens and history.
Island Blue (5,187 posts)
8. What's the matter
he couldn't find a more narrow street to travel down in order to make the crowd look even larger?
catbyte (1,860 posts)
13. My thought exactly, lol
EC (10,170 posts)
9. This stop was to make a major announcement, don't you think they'd have advance teams out to MAKE SURE there is a crowd?
Bluenorthwest (20,175 posts)
10. Looks like a thin turn out to me. A few people on one street is not 'crowds lining the streets' at all. That is not a photo of crowds lining the streets. It is a photo of one block of one narrow street and they folks are not even packed in a few deep. Now the Pope, he gets authentic crowds lining multiple streets, I don't care much for him, but what he gets are crowds and what they do is line the streets to see him pass. If this or any other Pope faced a crowd that thin and short, he'd plotz, and Popes don't like to plotz....
WorseBeforeBetter (6,569 posts)
11. Manassas is not Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, etc.
Those crowds don't surprise me in the least.
But yes, GOTV is crucial.
datasuspect (23,522 posts)
15. all bullshit until we get the port-a-potty count
yup.
Someone needs to make a movie, a science-fiction horror flick,
The Primitives: The Final Apocalypse.
