This is what 2012 looks like — lines around the block at Romney-Ryan rally in High Point, NC (Update – Overflow crowds in Mooresville)
Let this be a lesson for The Eeyores Among Us
From reader Tim who is at the Romney-Ryan appearance in High Point, North Carolina:
Going into the doors. Holy moly I can’t believe the people.
One picture is the front of the line, one picture kinda the back, EXCEPT my camera can’t capture two and a half blocks of people.
Many are actually women (the shock).
Tim just emailed again:
I have never been to a rally, but the picture in my head did not include a line to get off the exit, a half mile walk to the line and then a multiple block line. Consider me heartened.
Update — Overflow crowds in Mooresville, as reported by reader Hope:
My 18 year old daughter and I attempted to go to the Romney/Ryan rally this morning in Mooresville , NC. This is a video [image below] of the crowd outside around 9 a.m. The crowd behind me was as big. We did not get in as the crowd was too large. The fire marshal turned the crowds away. This was as close as we got.
We saw about 12 protestors in 3 separate groups of 4 each. They were not convincing anyone that “Offshore Mitt” posed any threat to the country.
As one man said to me…we are the people that work for a living and the people that are protesting are the people that vote for a living. Be encouraged. There are many, many good people with us.
I have always enjoyed your blog.
(added) Hope sends along another photo, taken by her daughter, giving another perspective on the crowd:
Update No. 2 - Huge Romney-Ryan rally in Waukesha, WI (photos)
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This gives me hope.
Our local NBC station last night ran a puff piece on Obama, ballyhooing a line at one of his rallies that stretched “around the block”. The funny thing was, the only attendee they interviewed said she was there “because people should see their president”. Note that she said nothing about supporting him. That same station reports today that tickets are still available for the Obama rally on Wednesday. Those are free tickets, BTW. Limit one per person, though, which means Mary can’t pick up tickets for herself and John. John’s gotta go along to get his. How many people do you suppose THAT pissed off?
Our annual summer festival was last weekend, with parade on Saturday. There were a lot of Dem “floats” and cars. (For some reason, Dems got to go to the front of the parade while Reps were relegated to the rear. You don’t suppose this has something to do with the fact that we’re pretty heavily union around here, do you?) But I noticed that the Dem signs were mostly for state and local candidates. Very little signage for Barry-O. Reps, OTOH, had a lot of Romney signs. No mention of Ryan on them, but assume that’s because they didn’t have time to print new signs.
Also noted that the Rep candidate for State Senator from our district (a commanding presence who must be 6’4″ at least) walked the entire route. This registers with Iowans.
One more observation. An internet search for the Dem candidate brings up very few direct hits (and many of them link to Obama) while the a search for the Rep candidate is a gold mine of information. Republicans are doing a terrific job of using the net this time.
R² in 2012!
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