USA Today grossly misstates attendance at Columbus Obama rally.
I would have expected this kind of "mistake" from Faux news.
In the first part of the article, it says there were only 10,000 people in attendance. I knew that couldn't be true because I had just talked to my sister, who had been there. You have to read almost to the end to find out there were 40% more than that -- almost 14,000.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/05/obama-kicks-off-campaign-in-ohio/1#.T6V-Ge33AiE
Paragraph 2:
Accompanied by his wife Michelle - who the president went back to retrieve after starting down the stairs of Air Force One without her -- the president spoke for 38 minutes before a young, racially diverse crowd of about 10,000 at an Ohio State University basketball arena.
Paragraphs 13 and 14:
About 14,000 filed into the 18,300-seat Schottenstein Center, with the arena's upper deck nearly empty. Student attendance at the rally was modest. After he finished at Ohio State, the president and First lady were flying to Richmond, Va., for another rally on the campus of Viginia Commonwealth University.
"It's not that his support is falling. It's just that we've seen him before, many of us a bunch of times," said Ohio State student Alison Forsyth, who attended a rally for the first time.
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