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Team Obama: The smaller crowd sizes? We’re doing that on purpose
Doug Powers for
Remember those enormous crowds that turned out for Obama’s rallies in 2008 and helped create an unstoppable wave of excitement culminating in a convincing election victory? They’re not going to make that mistake again:
However, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are not drawing the crowds they once could. The New York Times reported that the Obama campaign said that it is intentionally limiting crowd size at their events because of security and cost:
Image – Doug Ross
Xavier
August 20th, 2012
“because of security and cost”
So are security and costs larger problems than they were in ’08? Exactly why is that? Hmmm?
Saxindacity
August 20th, 2012
There’s a lotta things about me you don’t know anything about. Things you wouldn’t understand. Things you couldn’t understand. Things you shouldn’t understand.
…You don’t wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I’m a loner. A rebel.
Carlos The Jackal
August 20th, 2012
WeeWee Herman?
Strike-Anywhere Ukulele
August 20th, 2012
Excuse my language, but if that muthafuka were Pinocchio his nose would have circumnavigated the globe by now and would be poking him in the ass.
NoMoBo
August 20th, 2012
@Carlos – excellent!
Saxindacity
August 20th, 2012
Pee Wee Herman was much hipper than that POS!
MAJ Mike
August 20th, 2012
So what happened to that $1 billion campaign chest? Did Sugar Daddy Soros decide to spend money on his honeymoon with his new bride?
Heh!
Strike-Anywhere Ukulele
August 20th, 2012
MAJ Mike
good point. She has to be a very high maintenance bitch to marry that evil nazi. Maybe she’ll put him out of the loop.
serfer62
August 20th, 2012
Hey this is all about saving the earth from Globull Warming!!
FreeMan - Sorry Sarah
August 20th, 2012
So long as the votes for him are small also.
Czar of Defenestration
August 20th, 2012
He also MEANT to raise a whole lot less cash this time around.
Crafty guy.
Sad thing is: dumb votes cost the same upfront as ours.
Unneutral
August 20th, 2012
Smaller crowds, sure I understand, hell, I’ve been asking for smaller paychecks, leave something for the others you know.
scribble
August 20th, 2012
I guess they’re banking on the idea that if you keep obama from the people they’ll just want him that much more.
Claudia
August 20th, 2012
Security, maybe; but cost? COST?
Since WHEN has that evil waste of skin cared anything about cost except for wanting MORE?
jclady
August 20th, 2012
Smaller is a dog whistle.
I’ll leave it up to y’all to decipher.
Jethro
August 20th, 2012
He knows he is going to lose BIG TIME. All this fund raising is really the biggest FLIM-FLAM of all time. He is keeping his expenses low in order to have a big cash reserve after the election, which will suddenly disappear.
Ya Sure
August 20th, 2012
PeeWee Urkel.
In a 2nd term with ‘more latitude’, he planned to trash his teleprompters.
Instead of Pressers, he, Gibbs and Carney will dance “Tequila” on the Oval Office desk.
Ian Faith
August 20th, 2012
No, I wouldn’t say his popularity is declining; his appeal is just becoming more selective, that’s all.
Birdie Num Num
August 20th, 2012
OT: I know we want to concentrate on getting rid of Choomie and Chia Brain Joe and their disastrous policies but I can’t understand why IOTW and some other conservative blogs are completely blacking out the Todd Akin Clusterf*ck.
This cement-head has short circuited the anti Obama momentum and severely threatens the chances of gaining a Senate majority.
Ignoring it doesn’t make it go away.
Anonymous
August 20th, 2012
The crowds for Obama & Biden are shrinking because Biden’s in the doghouse.
The main clown act needs an opening clown act to pump up the crowd.
“~Let’s…Let’s stay together…~” —NOT lolol
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 20th, 2012
@Birdie Num Num: “I can’t understand why IOTW and some other conservative blogs are completely blacking out the Todd Akin Clusterf*ck.
This cement-head has short circuited the anti Obama momentum and severely threatens the chances of gaining a Senate majority.”
He’ a Republican – they usually find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. As Gordon Gekko would say: If these guys owned a funeral parlor, no one would die!
Guitar Mike
August 20th, 2012
Not true according to the Weekly Standard…
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-campaign-was-trawling-warm-bodies-fill-half-empty-kick-rally_650295.html
marleenna1959
August 20th, 2012
In November he’ll say he purposely depressed turnout of his own voters so there would be fewer people on the roads, hence less gas used and fewer traffic fatalities.
Stevo
August 20th, 2012
They’re so desperate, they’re using the Spinal Tap defense:
‘Chicago isn’t that big of a Democratic city, anyway.’
Old York, OY
August 21st, 2012
I wanted less people to vote for me so i could declare martial law and dictate to my subjects for the rest of my life.
Patricia
August 21st, 2012
Wow – I knew he thought we yahoos are stupid, but this is a bit much! Did you ever want to laugh and cry at the same time?
charlotte
August 21st, 2012
Oh he means there h a v e b e e n t e r m i n a l t h r e a t s
Billy Fuster
August 21st, 2012
Good strategy. Keep it up.