The Face of Failure: Only 500 People Show Up To See Mitt Romney In Ohio

[Tx4obama]

Remember when the right was claiming that Obama failed when he drew 14,000+ people to his Ohio rally? Today, Mitt Romney showed us what failure really is by drawing 500 people to his Ohio event.

According to Cleveland.com, “Before Romney began his town hall forum at Stamco Industries, Ohio Auditor Dave Yost dismissed the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as an Obama accomplishment. A Romney backer, Yost told a crowd of more than 500 that giving the president credit for bin Laden’s death would “be like giving Ronald McDonald credit for the Big Mac you had for lunch. Everyone knows it’s the man working the griddle, not the man on TV.”

The Romney people called the crowd estimated at anywhere between 300-700, “great turnout.”

Let’s do a little comparison shall we?

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Rest of article here: http://www.politicususa.com/romney-ohio-attendance.html

[corkhead]

1. Their prospects for Tuesday in Lansing MI must be so grim they invited ME to their rally. No Kidding

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Empty seats for empty suits.

Sounds logical to me.

[arcane1]

3. And how much, Mitt, do you think "the man working the griddle" needs to earn to survive?

You said you and your fellow conservatives believe "everyone" should live like the Papa John's Pizza guy lives. "The man working the griddle" is making the pizza too. They deserve the credit. How much should they rightfully earn compared to the mis-credited Ronald McDonald? He just gives the orders, right? No credit for that!

[schmice]

14. (APPLAUSE)

[Bjorn Against]

4. They are even dumber than I thought

I thought they were dumb for going after crowd size when it was clear Obama draws much larger crowds than Romney, but to do it on a day which they know Romney is going to be hosting a rally that would be only a small fraction of the size? Idiots.

I am starting to think the Republicans might be right about evolution, they are clearly still the same people they were in the stone age.

[Maeve]

26. they are still trying to turn his strength into his weakness

"Not as good as he used to be"

[Botany]

28. I wonder how many are company employees that had to be @ Mitt's talk?

now that is a crowd

[CTyankee]

37. Wow, it must cost the Obama campaign a bundle to pay ALL those people

to come out and stomp and cheer...

That's really tough...

(as if it is needed...)

[liberal N proud]

5. Obama Saturday in Columbus Ohio: 14,000

That should quite the smaller crowd than 2008 claims.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

30. but Cleveland is so much smaller than Columbus.

[and-justice-for-all]

6. he is a pathetic bastard

Who is going to get his ass kicked, and I think we will get the majority back as well.

[struggle4progress]

7. GOP leaders sort of start to rally around Romney

By The Associated Press, Herald-Tribune
Sunday, May 6, 2012

WASHINGTON

Republican party leaders are starting to rally around Mitt Romney, but it’s not exactly a stampede of support for the expected GOP presidential nominee ...

http://htpolitics.com/2012/05/06/gop-leaders-sort-of-start-to-rally-around-romney/

[Drunken Irishman]

8. Romney will pull in even less crowds than McCain...

At least McCain had a cool personal story and some charisma.

[ailsagirl]

9. It is said a picture is worth a thousand words...

Whoever coined the phrase certainly knew whereof s/he spoke!
Nitt = 500 people
Obama = 14,000 people
Yet "the polls" have them neck-and-neck?
Utter and absolute BS. I'm not giving the polls any credence after this.

[Marie Marie]

10. Oh now that is just sad.

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So why am I laughing my ass off at this massive FAIL?

[Skittles]

11. I will join you Marie Marie

[happerbolic]

12. is something 'fishy' about this showing?

Besides air time, can't any of the uber-wealth Rove, Koch bro's and their cronies are hoarding buy out attendance? Make's me really wonder what is in the works come convention time. A planned Paul take over or something? Making Obama spend a good chunk dealing with the wrong guy.

Like, if that kind of strategy is going to work this time around...

[CubicleGuy]

13. When your base is the one percenters...

... you should only expect 1% of the turnout a Democratic candidate would get.

[high density]

15. Republicans attacking Obama for killing bin Laden

They simply won't concede to Obama doing anything right...

[ailsagirl]

16. The escalated absurdity of their attacks

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smacks of desperation and clearly is indicative of their panic.

[otohara]

17. When All You Have to Offer

is more right-wing anti-Obama lines, you might as well stay home and watch FOX and listen to Limbaugh.
No vision, serial liar.

[WI_DEM]

18. and they snickered about Obama's 14,000!?

[ailsagirl]

19. In reality (which they have so much trouble with)

I think it was a real sob-fest





Hee hee

[janx]

20. Here's another one from the NYT:

[groundloop]

21. Go figure, that shot doesn't show all the empty seats.

It's amazing what you can achieve with the right camera angle.

Edit to add: Those people sure look damned bored.

[janx]

24. The article in the OP has different shots.

Have you seen them? They are very enlightening.

[louis-t]

23. The guy in the front row looks like he's asleep.

[jdadd]

22. This was probably attended only, by the employees of stamco Industries....

He probably wouldn't get this large of crowd with a public venue....

[janx]

25. Is Mitt's campaign going to stay this way?

What were the crowds like for McCain at this stage, relatively speaking? Because this is so pathetic as to be embarrassing.

[The Wielding Truth]

27. Projection again! Ronald McDonald is exactly what Mitt is. Mitt is even more vacuous.

[Politicalboi]

29. It would have been packed

If Rmoney hadn't saved GM. You see those empty seats are for the workers who couldn't attend due to working, due to Rmoney. See.

[Kyad06]

31. I think the Repukes are writing this one off....

Like Dole in '96 they know he has no chance and are looking to 2016

[Proud Liberal Dem]

32. I tend to agree with that assessment

OTOH maybe they think that if they somehow manage to smear President Obama enough and/or create the perception that President Obama is doomed/evil enough, they just *might* get lucky?

IMHO we need to make sure to keep our eyes on House/Senate races and other down-ticket races that the Super Pacs are already pouring lots of money into.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

34. I'm curious

if this got blasted all over the media and/or if anybody thinks that the Romney campaign should be concerned about such anemic turnout?

Somehow, I very much doubt it.

[Beartracks]

36. They'll run him in small venues so they can bleat about sellout crowds!!

Because, Hey! What's better: Obama filling an 18,000 seat arena to 78%, or Romney filling a 1,000 seat gymnasium all the way up to 50%? Oh, wait, never mind.

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[Beartracks]

35. Uh, Dave Yost: Really?

You think that 100,000 terrorist master-minds are killed each day like a standardized product in a highly-automated industry? You think Seal Team 6 members are just like fry cooks? Do the people of Ohio really pay you to be serve as an auditor? Aren't auditors supposed to be skilled at analysis? Your attempted analogy is false, not to mention lame.

Ohio, you might think twice about keeping Dave Yost on your payroll. He's displaying a serious bias issue, and digging for facts does not seem to rank high in his skillset.

By the way: anywhere between 300-700 people? Even "losers" can pull over 20 times that number.

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[yellowcanine]

38. They compared killing Bin Laden to cooking a hamburger?

Ok, whatever.