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11,000 Show Up for Obama in Florida While Romney Draws Hundreds in Virginia
As 11,000 enthusiastic supporters crammed into St. Petersburg to hear President Obama, Mitt Romney spoke to gathering of several hundred Republicans in an aircraft hanger in Virginia Beach.
The Washington Post reported, “Hoping to blunt any momentum his rival has picked up in Florida since the GOP convention, Obama opened his bus trip in the Interstate 4 corridor, which cuts through the center of the the state from the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic, with a rally for 11,000 in St. Petersburg, not far from Tampa. Obama’s 30-minute speech closely tracked his nomination acceptance speech Thursday in Charlotte.”
The Virginian-Pilot had this to say about attendance at Mitt Romney’s rally, “He spoke to several hundred people who had gathered hours earlier in an aircraft hangar to hear the Republican presidential nominee.”
See the difference for yourself.
Here is the Romney event:
Here are some clips of the crowd for Obama’s rally courtesy of the Tampa Bay Times:
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It might just be me, but 2012 is starting to look a whole lot like 2008. Obama is drawing tens of thousands in critical swing states, while Mitt Romney is speaking to hundreds. Romney is trying every gimmick in the book to get people to come and see him speak, as Obama is starting to pack them in. It is becoming clear that the Democratic convention fired up Obama’s base.
Like John McCain in 2008, Mitt Romney just can’t draw a crowd. Romney doesn’t excite. Romney doesn’t motivate and inspire. Mitt Romney is just the guy that you vote for if you don’t want to support President Obama. Mitt Romney isn’t offering America leadership or vision. He is the warm body that the Republicans nominated because they had to pick somebody to run against Obama.
There are a few other factors suggesting that Obama is gaining momentum. Mitt Romney drew 13 million fewer television viewers for his speech than John McCain did on the major networks. Barack Obama’s viewership was down by just three million. Across all networks five million more Americans tuned in for Obama than watched Romney. These are not the kind of viewership numbers that suggest a pro-Romney wave is building to unseat Obama. Secondly, polling is suggesting that Obama got a bounce from both the Republican and the Democratic convention. In the initial few days after the DNC, Obama’s job approval rating has improved by a net ten points.
There is some evidence of momentum being built, and it belongs to President Obama. Barring some sort of gaffe or major mistake by the president, Romney’s chances of catching Obama are down to the presidential debates. This election is going to be close, but it looks like President Obama may be able to use his campaign homestretch as a giant get out the vote effort.
Barring an unforeseen turn of events, it is difficult to see Romney winning the White House if his rallies continue to draw hundreds while President Obama is drawing thousands.
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galactusx
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 6:25 pm
RobMe has a group of bussed in senior citizens, He must have promised them lunch at Sweet Tomatoes! That old coot Pat Robertson was in the front row! LOL Pathetic. Try the Asiago dressing…
Jo Hargis
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 7:08 pm
Yeah, the busing in of folks. The fact that he’s had to purchase over 4 million FB Likes from a firm that sells those (he went from under 2 million to 6 million in a matter of a couple of weeks…do the math, plus there was an article that busted him for this and for buying Twitter followers). He has to bribe college students with free stuff to come to his rally. He has to tell lies…truly, he has no other choice….because the truth of his policies, as he stated himself, would make people not vote for him. His total lack of personality and inability to connect with regular people, evidenced by his constant social gaffes. He doesn’t seem to have any kind of filter for what’s offensive and what’s socially appropriate to say. His stump speeches and all have been plagued by low attendance for a long time.
Buhbyeee Mittens! maybe another lifetime you can come back as a genuine human.
Erick
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 11:18 pm
take the blinders off, or do you really not understand the 3 branches of government? if the house and the senate stands against him his policies don’t get in or have to compromised if they do. before he even tried anything it was said that “we will do everything to make sure none of his policies pass”. this from a party who claims they are for the people. what ever happened to teamwork? or us being a melting pot? i thought that’s what made this country what it is today. you can say we are no better than when he got elected but we surely are no worse. forget which party you align yourself with and check the facts. then let’s see who you call a liar.
JohnHerald
Sep. 9th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Please don’t shout, we can hear you. Seriously, all caps is hard to read. BTW, YOU’RE RIGHT.
Jerry
Sep. 9th, 2012 at 5:34 pm
our definitely gonna wear out your Upper caps key… unless you have worn out your lower caps key.
By the way, I am typing this with my middle finger.
Theresa
Sep. 11th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
YOU ARE RIGHT !! LOL I think it’s time to vote in a new Congress, ones that are willing to work with the President and move America forward! This is not working with this Congress that only because they want to limit Our President to 1 Term, they didn’t pass 86 Bills, that would move us FORWARD !!
Melissa
Sep. 9th, 2012 at 1:59 am
You made me laugh out loud for real when I read “that old coot Pat Robertson” – and it scared my poor Kitteh who was sleeping beside me!
Christine Newell
Sep. 9th, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Lololol!
Gee Jay
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
There is no enthusiasm gap this year. In 2008 it took many months of campaigning to determine who the Democratic candidate would be so everyone was on board early. In 2012, we knew all along who our candidate would be. The DNC convention was the real kickoff for the big show of enthusiasm this year.
GammaRae
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
I hope that enthusiasm leads to HUGE voter turnout, and that everybody has checked to ensure that your ID matches what the voter registration rolls say, just in case you live in a suppression state…we need for the margins to be sufficiently large that there is no credible way they can steal it a third time.
DeniseMari
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
You are so correct, GammaRae. We cannot stress enough to our fellow Obama/Biden supporters to ensure they have a photo ID and, if recently married, a new ID thus ensuring their votes will count. We cannot become complacent. This election is too important, the policies affected by the next Administration will affect the lives of our children and grandchildren. We can’t afford to take chances.
janice
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Amen. Our lives are literally on the line as far as I’m concerned. Vote and go with ID. Obama 2012
Donna
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
The RNC told a very important story. It was packed with lies that the factcheckers started working on during the convention and didn’t stop until 2 days later. I haven’t heard anything like that about the DNC.
MAJOR blunder by not only Romney but the entire RNC! None of them mentioned the (Soldiers) in harms way. McCaine DID mention going to war with 6 or 7 new countries.
The RNC tired old plan of “TINKLE DOWN ECONOMICS” has been a colossal failure, for 40 yrs.
Boehner is “TAIL BEING WAGGED BY DOG”, can’t control his party.
Todd Akin is on the “Science and Technology Committee” and Michelle Bachmann is on the “Intelligence Committee”. WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
Democrats get out and vote these idiots out and Democrats back into Congress and get that “JOBS BILL” passed.
www.washingtonpost.com/bl...
GOBAMA 2012!!
Sam
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
We are FIRED UP, and ready to VOTE Let’s make sure we get every Obama/Biden supporter registered VOTER READY!
OBAMA/BIDEN ….2012… Let’s make it happen! We can do it, people. Large Dem turnouts make it tough for the Repubs to steal.
R. Tresch
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
To me, the main issue in this election is civil rights. Are we as a people going to allow someone whose religion has taught him that Black people are sub-human inferior people to lie, cheat and steal his way into the White House despite ample proof that he IS lying, cheating and stealing the election. Are we as a people going to let the right-wing extremist segregationists who call themselves the Tea Party to put this country back in time to that time before Lincoln freed the slaves? These segregationists have taken over the Republican Party, and NOT ONE Republican stood up and objected to this segregationist agenda. In fact, the Republican Party endorsed this segregationist agenda. I believe that people are starting to “get it”. We need to publicize the truth to Romney’s lies, without pause. Nobody wants someone you can’t trust in the White House.
Rick Nooft
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 11:06 pm
To R. Tresch – I wholeheartedly agree with you. What I have seen is not so much people concerned about the economy but fatigue from being at war for so long and fatigue by the constant demonization of blacks, hispanics, gays, and women by the republican party. I sense people feel if we can’t get past the hate then nothing else will ever get accomplished. Hopefully you are right and this election will be a referendum on equality and fairness. People are tired of all the fighting and back-biting. They want government to work for us not against us and the GOP’s message has largely been to project hate on to everyone.
Annette Williams
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
I know the economy is important, but there were tornados in NYC today. I live in tornado alley, and we expect them, but in NYC! I do not want the party of anti-science in the White House. There is so much at stake this election. We have got to get people registered, and if necessary, drive them to the polls to vote.
Chris Lee
Sep. 9th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
I’m with you there. Politics is a pendulum and no matter how far it swings one way, it swings back the other. Not to say that it’s pretty damn unpleasant when it swings too far but climate change is not so easy to fix. Those who actually respect science (far too few) can see what has happened in the past when things have gone too far and appreciate what that means for the human race. My biggest fear is that the positive feedback loop has already gone beyond what is fixable, even with international cooperation. Every day that politicians prevaricate reduces the chances of us stopping this thing from going over the edge, assuming it hasn’t already.
Ebony
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
Awwwww poor wittle Mitty lol
Sara
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 8:33 pm
There would have been even more at the rally if some of us hadn’t been out registering voters! The convention truly ignited the base and we are fired up and ready to go!
bonniedavis
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Lying about the oil drilling, and arrogantly blustering “I’m going to open up ANWAR, and the Outer Continental Shelf? [reallly? just like that? Ha! Millions may disagree w/ you there, Mr. Romney. Lying about the ongoing Keystone pipeline negotiations and environmental impact studies by shouting like a cowboy that "oh yeah, and I'll bring that pipeline down from Canada" [as if it's a done deal, which it is not anyway] … what a jerk! Humility or ANY indication of statesmanship, tact, diplomacy, or even intelligence are seriously missing from the individual he reveals himself to be bellowing to his base. Sad.
dixie
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 9:02 pm
and Mittens is the best they got?? when I was young I used to think the pubs were very intelligent people they they are sure proving that thought way wrong. Mittens was born to money and then fiugurede out how to rob Americans and hide the profits. that does take a lil thinking but not much,espicially when the tax laws are so lax. and Ryan…. well he’s a theif too AND a pathalogial liar. they are donig their own selves in . hoorah and go O baby!!
Karen
Sep. 9th, 2012 at 4:11 am
By their own admission — Mitt is not the best they have, however, he will bend to their will and that is all that it required to be President.
Rosaleee
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 9:02 pm
FYI:
fivethirtyeight.blogs.nyt...
In the regular, likely-voter version of our “now-cast,” Mr. Obama is estimated to have a 68 percent chance of winning the Electoral College in an election held today.
****But on the basis of registered voters, he would be a 91 percent favorite. *****Instead of being ahead in the popular vote by a hair over one point, he’d be expected to win by around four. And he’d be projected to win 322 electoral votes, rather than 291.
(Emphasis mine)
Thus the #1 campaign strategy must be to get the voters to the polls, and to counteract voter suppression laws, either by getting them struck down by the federal courts, or by ensuring that enough people are able to qualify in spite of those laws.
dave
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 9:09 pm
I have never voted in my life, and I am fifty eight years old. But after watching the two conventions on television I was so disgusted by all lies, falsehoods, distortions, as well as deliberately false and misleading propaganda being spewed by the republican party at their convention I found myself being mad as hell and not willing to take it anymore.
While watching the DNC I could not help but notice the tasteful dresses being worn by the First Lady and her children, which was a stark contrast to way Palin, who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for clothes, was dressed last election. Right then and there I realized who is responsible for the mess we are in. And it is not President Obama.
As such for the first time ever, I will be casting my vote in a Presidential election. If it was the intention of Romney and Ryan to motivate me to get off my ass and vote, they succeeded marvelously. But the end result will not be what they are hoping for. My vote will be for President Obama as well as for each and every Democrat to be found on the ticket.
s
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 10:18 pm
that’s awesome Dave!
Victoria Lamb, MSHA
Sep. 10th, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Yay! Welcome to the party, Dave. We love diversity and helping each other. And we think President Obama is going to be our President for another four years.
ibwilliamwsi
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Welcome to the fold, Dave. Be sure to register ASAP, there’s probably a 30 day limit to register, so you have four weeks to get it into the SOS.
Karen
Sep. 9th, 2012 at 4:13 am
For sure. Here’s a link to registering on line: registertovote.org/index....**General
dave
Sep. 9th, 2012 at 5:17 am
I mailed in my registration already. So…
Let every politician know, whether they wish me well or ill, that I shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of this country I live in.
You may take away my equity in my home, you may take away my life’s savings, you may tax me to death, and you may cut off any manner of public charity I may need, fire me and throw me into the cold without even a blanket, you may hide your money in off shore accounts while sending jobs so desperately needed in this country over seas, BUT you may NOT continue to ignore me as if I were a leper outside the city gates.
I will NOT allow you to take away my liberty and my dignity in order to provide more for those who need it the least. The rich shall NOT be allowed to get richer while the poor continue to get poorer. I will not stand for that.
I am not willing to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed to, that the republican party wishes to abolish for the sake of saving a few bucks that they will only piss away elsewhere. If a political party will not help the many who are poor, then it will not be allowed to save the few who are rich if I have any say in the matter at hand.
I will move heaven and earth if that is now required of me to prevent that, whether Atlas shrugs me off or not. The first step always being the hardest. I have taken that step. I mailed in my registration to vote and my vote will be for President Obama.
I suspect that John F Kennedy, and his brother Robert, as well as the Reverend Martin Luther King, would have approved of that vote. But I do think they are all frowning upon my fifty-eight years of failing to do so in the past.
Elizabeth
Sep. 9th, 2012 at 11:09 pm
Yes, we have to look at the rest of the ballot. Mr. Obama will be able to get a lot more done, if the Congress is made up of folks willing to compromise. They don’t all have to agree, just be willing to find some common ground for the good of the country.
Cons_Hate_America
Sep. 17th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Thank you, Dave. you’re doing a great thing for your country and saving American Middle Class. Very important to give Obama a Democratic congress so he can get more things done finally.
Patricia Kayden
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
Bracing for the ad buy from Romney and his billionaire supporters. Will it be enough to get the electorate to support him? I doubt it. And I don’t see Romney beating President Obama during the three debates.
ibwilliamwsi
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Were those several hundred people in Virginia given a day off without pay and told to attend a “mandatory meeting” but they weren’t being “forced to go”?
I was going to snark about the weather keeping people away from Mitt in VA, but it was inside an airplane hanger, so he’ll have to save that excuse for another day.
Caroline
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 10:25 pm
I am so happy to hear such enthusiastic supporters for our president! If he just does what he did at the convention, and speak with such great conviction, he will get the masses out to vote for him.
After all, who in their right mind, would vote for Mitt Romney?
Anthony Belvedere
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 10:29 pm
I think this last DNC was the best ever; there were some little glitches i.e. God in the platform thing, and the attempt by many delegates to appear as fervently patriotic as Repubs, but all-in-all, inspirational.
Wesley R. Elsberry
Sep. 8th, 2012 at 11:09 pm
I need more numbers, but early results of an online poll I’m taking show about 20% of folks saying they want to vote against Romney are going to vote either third party or write-in, while over 40% of folks saying they want to vote against Obama are going to vote either third party or write-in. I’m interested to see how this develops with more participation. Visit 2012 Presidential Race Poll: How Do You Really Feel? to add in your view.
j
Sep. 9th, 2012 at 7:35 am
Remember, Mitt has been campaigning all over the country for over 1 year already, he should have a huge advantage. Obama has been doing his day job in spite of the repub congress, so for Mitt to be where he is, it’s pretty bad. Could it be because he won’t tell us what he would do as pres, he won’t show his tax returns, or divulge all of his offshore interests?
Really??
Sep. 9th, 2012 at 4:08 pm
I am in Virginia Beach! I did not know Romney was here. It must have been a very small crowd. When Obama was in Norfolk recently the traffic was affected in Virginia Beach. It is a quiet weekend here in Virginia Beach. Oh Romney…did they tell you Virginia is a battleground state. Does not bode well for you and Eddie (Munster).
Really??
Sep. 9th, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Btw, to the person who mentioned the weather here in VA Beach…it rained this morning. But by early afternoon the sun was shining. People were out on the beach at the Oceanfront.
Jim
Sep. 10th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
The Republican press was tripping all over themselves when a crowd of 4000 showed up to see Romney in Cincinnati! Hopefully this is a sign that the Democrats are getting fired up and will vote.
Cons_Hate_America
Sep. 17th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
No wonder he used the plane crash yesterday to bail on his CO event. Probably few shows.