Comparison of *45's crowd vs protest crowd size in Nashville, TN today

[StrictlyRockers]

Size matters

Link to tweet

[MFM008]

1. maybe if crowds

stay small and he is pinned down about it he will stop this stupid behavior.

[madokie]

3. Not a chance

this stupid behavior you mention is all he knows

[MFM008]

7. Your right

Wtf was I thinking....

[Demsrule86]

14. There would be a small chance that if he realized his positions were unpopular, he might reverse

them as he graves adulation but sadly, we have Bannon to block that.

[nolabels]

22. There is small chance I might get struck by lightning

When I go out of the house I always bring a lightning rod with me

[Demsrule86]

23. True that...

I agree it is unlikely.

[Hortensis]

24. Large numbers of people waited all day outside in bitter cold,

for some 12 hours, but were never able to get inside.

A better photo op for Rump with more filled seats inside would only obscure the astonishing incompetence of this administration. For better or worse,the 11-year-old girl I read about who waited outside in line the entire day in dreadful weather to see him should not have ultimately gone away crying.

[Demsrule86]

25. He is a nasty man...cruel even to his own supporters.

That being said...no kid should hear the hate he spewed last night.

[Hortensis]

26. Agree. But Rump didn't mishandle that. The kind of people

who flock to him are generally intrinsically incompetent. They mishandle most of what they touch, and yes, have very different definitions of caring and responsibility. We've seen that over and over.

What lesson that child would have taken, any--who knows? She may be another Phyllis Schlafly.

[Demsrule86]

27. True.

I have to think it is a good thing when kids are kept away from the orange asshat.

[Hortensis]

28. Agree. I am curious what she would have thought

after actually seeing him. She must have had exposure to some of the bad side of his audience all those hours in line, though.

So it's unlikely she'd be like that very sheltered girl I read about, raised by fundamentalist Church of the Nazarene parents (I've known some), whose dad really regretted taking her to Rump's recent Orlando rally for what he thought would be a civics lesson. That girl was crying too as he hustled her out, but from shock and fear at what the crowd was displaying.

[Maraya1969]

6. He must be dejected that people are not treating like a rock star anymore, save a few die-hards

[lagomorph777]

16. No but it does demonstrate the growing momentum to defecate him out of the Oval Orifice

[Cha]

2. And, in Nashville.. pretty good, huh?

Mahalo, SR

[videohead5]

8. They Did Not Vote For Him

Nashville voted for Hillary by 26 points over Trump.

[Cha]

9. Yeah, I was thinking of that after I posted.. Nashville

mostly has the smart caring Musicians.

Thank you, videohead5

[MadLinguist]

15. And Vanderbilt University, Meharry Medical, Belmont, Tennessee State

Fisk, Liscomb... and a big healthcare IT community. Like a lot of other cities in the South, Nashville is a blue blob in a sea of red.

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. Even his supporters must be tired of these f**kin' rallies by now. He's POTUS. Get to work.

[lagomorph777]

17. I'd much rather have him at failed rallies than

accomplishing his evil agenda.

[Tarheel_Dem]

19. Good point. But the media doesn't have to fill up the airwaves with these ridiculous rallies.

MSNBC was unbearable last night. I don't often watch LO, but I tuned in last night and almost his entire show was footage of Drumpf at his "rallies". I can't stand to listen to or look at the buffon, and I don't think endless footage of him is necessary.

[lagomorph777]

20. I change the channel very quickly when he appears on the screen.

I just get sick looking at that orange pile of diarrhea.

[Tarheel_Dem]

21. Me too.

[lillypaddle]

5. I'm watching the rerun now

maybe it's the camera shot, but looks like a lot of people screaming and cheering the lunatic on.

Mindless dumbasses.

[Sherman A1]

10. It is the camera work

We saw that in the primary elections and in the general election as well.

[DeminPennswoods]

11. People are packed in behind Trump

When Casey ran for his first term, he was being interviewed on TV. There were only maybe 10-12 people, but all were packed in right behind Casey and holding a few signs so it looked like a much bigger crowd of supporters to those watching on TV.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Like A Sports Movie

They only need a few hundred people in the stands right behind the camera shots, then use stock footage of packed stadium for the long views. They are basically staging a production number using evil Hollywood visual effects.

[MoonRiver]

13. Oh dear, Tiny Whatever didn't get his compensatory crowd last night!

[socialist_n_TN]

18. OK for a little background since I'm in the Nashville area.............

The newspaper this morning said that the protest crowd numbered approximately 2500 people. And in every protest I've been at around here they UNDERESTIMATE the crowds like most main-stream media does. So let's say 3000 people outside the arena in the cold. And yes, it was REALLY cold in Nashville last night.

The arena that he held the rally at seats around 9900. So if it were half-full that would be a little over 4500 people. You can draw your own conclusions from those numbers. But even being a "blue dot" in a Republican state, this is still a very conservative area compared to most urban areas. Yet almost as many people turned out in the cold to protest the event as was inside the building. And, once again per the Tennessean, SOME of the ones inside were there to protest and disrupt. They were escorted out, but they were there inside. I'd say that was a pretty good showing by the protestors in Nashville.