Bloomberg Report:: McCain campaign misrepresenting crowd size estimates

[grantcart]

At first they criticized Obama for getting huge crowds and now they lie about the size of their own

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a1J0tfV3XJYs&refer=politics

McCain-Palin Crowd-Size Estimates Not Backed by Officials

Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Senator John McCain has drawn some of the biggest crowds of his presidential campaign since adding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to his ticket on Aug. 29. Now officials say they can't substantiate the figures McCain's aides are claiming.

McCain aide Kimmie Lipscomb told reporters on Sept. 10 that an outdoor rally in Fairfax City, Virginia, drew 23,000 people, attributing the crowd estimate to a fire marshal.

Fairfax City Fire Marshal Andrew Wilson said his office did not supply that number to the campaign and could not confirm it. Wilson, in an interview, said the fire department does not monitor attendance at outdoor events.

In recent days, journalists attending the rallies have been raising questions about the crowd estimates with the campaign. In a story on Sept. 11 about Palin's attraction for some Virginia women voters, Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher estimated the crowd to be 8,000, not the 23,000 cited by the campaign.

[Starry Messenger]

1. LOL

Whoops! You changed the story

[grantcart]

2. A STD check (lol)

[Starry Messenger]

6. I went with my husband I'll have you know! :)

MPK

[Top Cat]

21. Sad..... Obama has really gotten inside their heads

[goclark]

3. Keep this K'd

[saltpoint]

4. McCain can't count houses or crowd sizes.

[RichGirl]

5. This is why he wants to do events with Obama...

...so he can take credit for the HUGE crowds that Obama attracts.

[KittyWampus]

12. excellent snark!

[FrenchieCat]

7. Isn't there anything they DON'T LIE about?

That is the question. :eyes:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

8. REPUBS ARE PROPAGANDA, ALWAYS

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[supernova]

9. Wow. Why is McCain in the doghouse with Bloomberg?

Not to say I'm not pleased. I am. I am very surprised, however.

[ProSense]

10. 8,000 vs. 23,000

Yeah, the RW is really motivated.

:sarcasm:

[cliffordu]

11. I KNEW that was the case. NO ONE can convince me that Mooselini

can draw those kinds of crowds.

The fix is just bigger all the time.

Dominionist America. We are fucked.

[grantcart]

18. well but they forgot that crowds are outside and actually can be counted lol

[cliffordu]

19. Yep - we have people that can count higher than 6000, for instance.....

[gateley]

13. Good- so if we translate this into supporters/voters,

instead of 23,000 McCain gets 8,000?

I know it's not that cut and dried or across the board, but it's an indication, right? That there aren't as many rabid followers as they'd like us to believe?

[BlueIdaho]

14. The emperor has no clothes... the republicans have no shame.

[AtomicKitten]

15. No worries. They balance it out by underestimating Obama's crowds.

:mad:

[Cosmic Charlie]

16. just like there were 50,000 Harleys at Sturgis

:eyes:

[grantcart]

17. have you ever been to Sturgis - that number is probably accurate

all the dentists and accountants drag their trailers to the outskirts of Sturgis and then ride in on their Harleys lol

[Cosmic Charlie]

22. maybe over the course of the week, but definitely not in McCain's crowd of around 5000 people

10 Harleys for every person?

[grantcart]

23. oh no besides it wasn't a McCain event it was an event that he interloped into

[Cosmic Charlie]

34. before Palin, he had to glom onto whatever was available

[nichomachus]

20. They're not lying about Sarah being a Pit Bull

Her policies are the pits and she feeds us a lot of bull.

[Coexist]

24. they are pathetic.

[barack the house]

25. I will never fathom how they have any credibility left at this point.

[grantcart]

28. it has been an astonishing decline in credibility and honor

[ihavenobias]

26. K & R, I'm not surprised n/t

[bevoette]

27. LOL (nm)

[d.amber]

29. This is too funny n/t

[Cha]

30. 8 thousand idiots are bad

enough.

Doesn't mccain care that's he's branded a liar and a whiner?

Whining about Obama's crowds and then lying about his own:silly: :+

[Monk06]

31. Mc Cain; I didn't say 23,000. I said 23,000-ish

[grantcart]

32. rounding to the nearest lie

[FrenchieCat]

33. These Unamericans are sooo man-made!