Before we get too presumptious....

[KegCreekDem]

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


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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-

[KegCreekDem]

1. On the other hand.....

Don't these two buses appear to be on a collision coarse?

[Motown_Johnny]

14. you are looking at the back of the other bus

notice the license plate and the tail lights, not headlights

[KegCreekDem]

17. You are right.

But, I thought two buses appearing to collide would be a fitting omen to start their campaign.

[Scuba]

2. Aerial shot please. I don't consider 150 people a "huge crowd". Now in Madison last year....

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[Brickbat]

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]

12. That's my estimate too.

100 people is not much of a crowd: It's two bus loads.

[JNelson6563]

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!

Julie

[ibegurpard]

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!

[Enrique]

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.

[Journeyman]

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]

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]

13. My thought exactly, lol

[EC]

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]

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]

11. Manassas is not Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, etc.

Those crowds don't surprise me in the least.

But yes, GOTV is crucial.

[datasuspect]

15. all bullshit until we get the port-a-potty count

yup.

[JoePhilly]

16. The comments section is hilarious ... nothing but right wing nut jobs.