Crowds turn out for Romney's Omaha visit

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120510/NEWS01/120509713#crowds-turn-out-for-romney-s-omaha-visit

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Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters at Rick's Cafe Boatyard in Omaha

ALYSSA SCHUKAR/THE WORLD-HERALD
Published Thursday May 10, 2012

It wasn't a meat-and-potatoes policy speech, but the 600-plus people who filled a riverfront restaurant got what they came for from Mitt Romney.

He gave a shout out to mothers, said he likes oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy, deplored the federal debt and pledged to balance the budget.

He even gave a nod to the Keystone XL pipeline, which he said he would approve.

Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, received an enthusiastic response from the crowd at Rick's Cafe Boatyard, some of whom had waited nearly three hours for the 12-minute speech.

FULL story at link.

[n2doc]

1. 600. For the Republican presidential (likely) nominee. I'm trembling with fear

[pinboy3niner]

2. We need photos

Ed. to add: Found one...



Mitt Romney spoke to the overflow area (LOLOLOL!) at a campaign event on Thursday in Omaha. Photo by Jae C. Hong/Associated Press

[C_U_L8R]

6. Nice fence there

to hold back the thongs of adoring fans (???)

[pinboy3niner]

8. That's to keep them IN

No leaving for you!

[BlueToTheBone]

5. Now, Now, only 150 will be at George Clooney's

tonight...of course it's expected to give President Obama $6million!

Of course, they are working those ballot boxes for their very lives.

[RandySF]

3. Sounds like a local puff piece.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Waiting three hours for a 12-minute speech?

Oh but that 12 minutes must have been an experience of masterful Lincolnesque oratory. The Gettysburg Address 2.0.

[qazplm]

7. the fact that he's in Nebraska

after he's already cinched the nomination, tells you everything you need to know.

[bluestate10]

9. Sure does. Nebraska is as red as christmas holly.

Maybe Romney was there to raise funds, he can do that better in a red state. But $800,000 is a paltry sum when compared to President Obama's fundraising hauls.

[MrScorpio]

10. Omaha is a blue dot in sea of red, it's Obama territory.

And the President isn't in danger of losing, I see, with that crowd.

The state assigns proportional electoral college votes. Omaha represents one vote. That's why he's there, he's trying to take a sure vote away from the President.

He's not trying hard enough.

[LadyHawkAZ]

11. I saw Obama speak in Sept. 2008

in Elko, NV- the very definition of BFE.

We had a bigger crowd than that, out there in the middle of nowhere.

[hatrack]

12. Wow! 600 people!

Betcha Romney's sure gonna take Nebraska in November now!